Saturday, February 26, 2011

If you love ice, cold and penguins...

...Antarctica is your continent.


Other trips on smaller sailboats.  You can see the scale of the glaciers here - most had 80 - 200 feet of ice hanging into the water.
Millions of penguins - we must have seen a couple of thousand in just in a week.  Late February is getting close to the end of the breeding season, and these chicks will soon take to the sea.


Penguins, snow and ice and the Polar Pioneer, our home for 11 days.  The shack is a refuge maintained by the Argentinians in case of an emergency.

Austere and beautiful.

None of the wildlife seems to mind humans too much... this is a fur seal looking annoyed.

Almost 2 months since leaving a civilized life in Boston.

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