Tuesday, June 18, 2013

WILD LIFE

Today was a wildlife smorgasbord. We saw Weddell seals, three Emperor penguins, a molting Adelie penguin (they don’t go swimming when they’re molting), snow petrels, and a pod of seven Orca whales. Fossils of penguins indicate they used to be six feet tall!

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Probably the COOLEST day was the ONE day we got to get off the boat. We took snowmobile rides around the ice while the Penguin team caught penguins to tag. We approached a seal and out of the middle of the ice blubbered up another! Two Emperor Penguins came waddling on scene and we sat in rapt attention watching this Weddell Seal....unbelievable (its blurry for the 1st 30 seconds.


see more photos HERE
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