I’m heading back south today with this view of one of the many icebergs grounded in Cooper Bay, South Georgia. The captain expertly navigated M/V Hondius...
Complex patterns in the ice at Salpêtrière Bay, Antarctica as seen on December 31st, 2024.
A Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) seen on an ice floe at Cape Tuxen, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024.
Buxton Glacier is one of three glaciers that meet and terminate at St. Andrews Bay in South Georgia. Maps indicate that the glacier front has receded by about...
A detail of an intricately patterned and beautifully coloured iceberg seen at Petermann Island, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024.
One of the many and varied icebergs floating in the bay at Cape Tuxen, Antarctica on the morning of December 31st, 2024.
Cornwallis Island is a 1 mile long outcrop of dramatically rugged rock and ice jutting from the Southern Ocean at the north eastern tip of the South Shetlands...
We saw a huge diversity in the shapes and textures of icebergs on the trip. This one, spotted as we left Cooper Bay in South Georgia, had likely toppled...
I’ll stick with the zodiac theme today with this image taken at Cape Tuxen on the Antarctic mainland. This was one of the most breathtaking views...
Shackleton’s epic 1916 rescue mission, sailing 800 miles in a lifeboat from Elephant Island in Antarctica to seek help for his stranded crew, reached...
We spotted this Gentoo penguin struggling to get onto a grounded iceberg in a bay at Petermann Island, Antarctica during a zodiac cruise on December 31st,...
The big Antarctic adventure is almost over, unfortunately. Our journey back to Ushuaia has been fine so far with the Drake Passage proving less daunting...
A Bald Eagle perched on an iceberg which was floating in front of the face of Margerie Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park on September...
Glacial ice really is amazingly blue. This small iceberg was floating in front of the face of the South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska during our September visit...
The face of Margerie Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park. Find all my Alaska and British Columbia images at https://davewilson.smugmug.com/Travel/Alaska-BC-September-2023/Places-Things/.
A zodiac cruises in front of the face of South Sawyer Glacier in south eastern Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord in an area known as Ford’s Terror Wilderness....
South Sawyer Glacier ends with a 1500 foot wall of blue ice slowly breaking up into the Tracy Arm Fjord in south eastern Alaska. The scale of the feature...
This will be the last of the Texas winter storm photos for now. The countryside around here is covered in Mountain Juniper trees like this one. They are known...
A Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) sits in a snow- and ice-covered mountain juniper tree during the week long winter storm that hit Texas in February...
This week’s posting schedule was rather disrupted by the historic winter storm that hit Texas last weekend. Things started going south for us on Sunday...
