Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Antarctica – Day two

On our second day in the region, we got lucky again and saw lots of wildlife.
We also saw lots of other ships touring around the area.

Here you can see tourists visiting an Argentinian research station. Yes, those little specks are people! And the tinier specks, under the buildings, are penguins!!

In another bay, we came across six humpback whales. Here you can see a couple of them.

One of them was very curious and came right up beside the ship.

Warning - here´s something that no nature program will tell you. Don´t stand down wind from a whale that is taking a crap. This whale swam up to us and took a dump. The smell could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon at 50 paces!

We came across alot of penguins, but they were too far away to get any closeup shots. There are thousands of them here at this rookery. The pink stuff is penguin crap. (There is tons of it down here.) As you can see, the penguins are quite small, so in order to find them, you just have to look for their crap.

Here you can see a couple of penguins swimming (flying) through the water.


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