Antarctic expedition Dec. '22 - Jan. '23. Part 12 |
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Jozioau ![]() Alpha Eyes group ![]() Joined: 13 May 2007 Country: Australia Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Posts: 9116 |
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Continuing the numbering from Part 11.
162. Heading further south past Anvers Island toward Port Lockroy. ![]() 163. ![]() 164. Site of a British Research station, the original 1950s building preserved as a museum. ![]() 165. A sheltered port popular with cruise ships and smaller recreational craft. ![]() 166. Popular with Gentoo penguins as a rookery. Scattered with relics like this dog sled, and whale bones. ![]() 167. The modern research station in the background. ![]() 168. ![]() 169. The expeditions certainly didn't include any six footers. ![]() 170. ![]() 171. ![]() 172. ![]() 173. ![]() 174. ![]() 175. Gentoo penguins incubating their eggs on their pebble nests. Being this much further south, the chicks are yet to hatch. ![]() Edited by Jozioau - 17 March 2023 at 11:57 |
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Jozioau ![]() Alpha Eyes group ![]() Joined: 13 May 2007 Country: Australia Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Posts: 9116 |
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![]() 177. ![]() 178. ![]() 179. A short zodiac ride across to Jougla Point, site of a large Gentoo rookery. ![]() 180. ![]() 181. ![]() 182. Whale spine protruding through the snow, with surprisingly small yachts moored in the harbour. I'd think they must have sailed through challenging conditions to have reached here. ![]() 183. Penguin highways in the snow. ![]() 184. ![]() 185. ![]() 186. ![]() 187. ![]() 188. ![]() 189. Last sighting of Antarctica. ![]() 190. A re-post of the journey's route for reference. ![]() The original itinerary had us heading further south to cross the Antarctic Circle and explore other landing sites, but a day and a half before the end, the expedition leader called everyone to the conference room to announce a passenger had become ill and needed emergency transfer to a hospital. No details other than to say it wasn't Covid related. The medical team had stabilised things, and the captain had explored sailing to a nearby Chilean Antarctic station with a shaved ice airstrip for air evacuation, but because they didn't have instrument landing, they could not risk a plane being sent there only to find it was fogged in and it couldn't land. So the decision was taken that the ship would power straight back to Ushuaia, which it did with everyone's full support. Once we arrived the passenger was transferred from the dock by ambulance to the local hospital, was assessed and treated, and we were told the following day an air transfer was arranged back to a hospital in the USA. In compensation for the shortened itinerary, Aurora arranged for us to go on a half day exploratory cruise on the Beagle Passage, the subject of my next and final chapter instalment of this series. Edited by Jozioau - 24 March 2023 at 05:18 |
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4paul ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 26 July 2011 Country: United States Location: St Petersburg Status: Offline Posts: 1659 |
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The penguins in 174 make it a fantastic photo. The footprints in 185, I would never guess pengiun! They have webbing, but the toes really sink down; I guess if you have to walk a mile across horrible terrain, and you're less than a meter tall, you need walking toes....
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Jozioau ![]() Alpha Eyes group ![]() Joined: 13 May 2007 Country: Australia Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Posts: 9116 |
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Paul, photo 72 in Part 6 gives a very good view of Gentoo feet. If you click on the image and transfer to the Flickr original you can enlarge it to full size for a better view.
For another clear view, photo 123 in Part 9 shows the feet of a Gentoo penguin chick. Yes, they really need the pronounced claws to get a purchase on ice as well as mud, sand, gravel, bare rocks and snow. Edited by Jozioau - 17 March 2023 at 08:42 |
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Love the images of the 1950s buildings - and those of the larger scenery, #162 is a particularly strong on, IMO. It is nevertheless regretable that you had to cut short the voyage due to that medical emergency.
Looking forward to the last leg! As always: TFS, Joe! |
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