On the way to Damoy Point and Port Lockroy, the first icebergs, fantastic formations with amazing colours, some of them huge, enormous glaciers and glacier walls, some over a hundred meters, falling straight into the sea. Looking at Port Lockroy, previously a Britisch scientific base, now only a museum and the world's most southerly post-office, sandwiched between the sea and ice and towering mountains, makes one realise how puny humankind really is. This is gentoo penguin territory. It's molting time, and time the chicks start to learn fending for themselves.
Icebergs, in the most fantastic shapes and sizes.
Iceberg.
Icebergs and bad weather.
Huge glacier wall.
Large chunk of broken off glacier.
Floating ice island.
the blue colour is caused by the compression of snow in the glacier to ice.
A gentoo penguin calling his partner, this is Damoy Point.
A gentoo penguin rookery.
The erstwhile british scientific base at Port Lockroy, now a museum and the most southerly post office in the world.
An expedition cruise ship in the bay at Port Lockroy gives an impression how puny man really is.
An explorer braving the elements.
An adult gentoo guarding a rookery.
Penguins seem to be just like humans. Here a tough adolescent.
And here a whiner, nagging his parent for food.
Throwing a tantrum if he is not directly served.
He has to learn to fend for himself, his parents will nog always be there.
Portrait.
Laid-back chicks, once they have eaten.
Look, there's dad with food, and over there a photographer.
Food has priority.
|The penguin parent has noticed they are not his offspring.
Penguin parents only feed their own, chicks are not so particular.
Giant Petrel, looks like an albatros, but the albatros does not come so far south.
