Apparently yesterday was Penguin Awareness Day and I missed an opportunity to post one of the many penguin pictures I have lined up. I’ll make good...
A detail of an intricately patterned and beautifully coloured iceberg seen at Petermann Island, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024.
After a year on land as brown fuzzballs, King Penguins shed their fuzz and prepare to head out to sea for the first time. Here’s one disreputable-looking...
The King Penguin rookery at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia is the world’s largest. The last official count in 2021 estimated 150,000 birds but recent...
Fur Seals (Arctocephalus gazella) were everywhere on South Georgia where the current population is estimated at five million or about 95% of the world...
Aside from one lost individual on the Falkland Islands, we only saw Macaroni Penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus) in a single location during our trip. Here...
King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) undergo an annual catastrophic moult during which they replace their entire collection of feathers all at once....
Staying with the Gentoo penguin theme, here’s a nest we spied on the Orne Islands during our January 1st shore landing. This parent (you can’t...
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,...
Back on December 31st, we were delighted to be able to watch a couple of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) spend about an hour feeding all around...
Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are found along the entire Antarctic coast but not on any of the sub-Antarctic islands so we only started seeing...
We visited Elephant Island yesterday for a zodiac cruise around the bay at Point Wild, the location of the final rescue of Shackleton’s team back...
I just realised that I have so far failed to post an image of the cutest inhabitants of South Georgia so today’s picture aims to correct that. We visited...
We cruised past the world’s largest iceberg, A-23a, this morning and picked up a significant following of local seabirds including this Antarctic...
I was delighted to find that there are Antarctic Terns (Sterna vittata georgiae) nesting at Godthul on South Georgia where we spent yesterday afternoon....
This morning’s shore excursion was absolutely amazing. We got up at 4am to shuttle across to the beach at St. Andrew’s Bay on South Georgia,...
The first bird colony we visited on New Island (on December 19th) was home to a large number of Imperial Cormorants (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis) including...
A Gentoo penguin with two chicks in a colony on New Island, one of the Falkland Islands, on December 19th, 2024. The landscape of New Island reminded me very...
Today was our first penguin day! We spent it visiting a couple of different bird colonies on New Island, one of the 704 islands comprising the Falkland...
Apparently Oceanwide Expeditions have installed StarLink on their boats and, as a result, are now offering limited, free internet to guests for the duration...
