[Leica] Cuverville Island

[philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)]

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140118_5694.jpg.html

is my favourite Jayanand


OTT : Could you please pass my amical souvenir to the other two  
couples too

Have fun there!

Amities
Philippe



Le 4 mars 14 ? 05:14, Jayanand Govindaraj a ?crit :

> I just have a handful of photographs processed and ready, and thought
> I would post them before Neela & I leave for Ndutu in Tanzania
> tomorrow for a 10 day trip which also includes two other LUG couples -
> Howard and Esther Cummer and Alastair and Helen Firkin.. This is a
> place in the Antarctic Peninsula called Cuverville Island, which has a
> Gentoo Penguin breeding colony high up on a hill fronted by an
> extremely rocky beach leading to open water. The first photo is of the
> only land bird that makes its home in Antarctica, the Snowy
> Sheathbill, which can be found scavenging around the penguin colonies:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140118_5713.jpg.html
>
> The Gentoo Penguins come down a very well traversed "highway" from the
> rookery to the rocky beach front in order to access the open water to
> feed:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140118_5694.jpg.html
>
> Then they literally hop onto the rocks:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140118_5663.jpg.html
>
> There were a few Weddell Seals around, too. This one just woke up as I
> approached and launched into a few luxurious yawns:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140118_5720.jpg.html
>
> More interesting, though, was to watch these seals slithering and
> sliding over and around the rocks, like gigantic slugs, to get to the
> open water. Like most animals/birds here, you could get close without
> any fear - very surprising, considering the wholesale slaughter of
> these creatures that took place in these parts for a good part of the
> 20th century:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140118_5808.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE
>
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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