Pictures on Shutterfly: Icebergs and Penguins!

[barondave]

Just added several hundred pictures on porpoising.shutterfly.com continuing my trip from Washington DC to Miami to Santiago Chile to Punta Arenas Chile to Ushuaia Argentina on board the National Geographic Endeavour into the Drake Passage to the icefields of Antarctica to Aitcho Island. *whew* This is fewer than a third of the pictures, which I'm still going through.

Lots of iceberg pictures, beginning on Nov. 29, album Antarctica Trip VI: Endeavour. For those of you who want to skip to the penguins, see Antarctica Trip VII: Aitcho. More penguins soon.

Note of caution: While the Shutterfly thumbnails are fairly small, the full pictures are unedited, uncropped and uncompressed. My pictures average about 850K, mom's are about twice that. Hope y'all have a fast connection!

Comments

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Love the penguins!
Some of them even seemed to be hamming it up for the camera!

Do people feed them? Any idea what happened to the dead one?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

As visitors, we didn't leave anything behind and didn't touch or feed the penguins. They have no land predators, so occasionally they'd come up to us, closer than we went to them, and looked at us quizzically: "Are you food?" We weren't. We couldn't interfere with any of the Cycle of Life, such as chasing away birds that steal their eggs (which is coming up later).

I don't know what happened to the dead one. I saw very few remnants of dead animals; presumably everything get eaten. For the feathers to be that defined seems to indicate that it died in the snow during the winter (it was high summer down south), but anything I say would be a guess.