Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds great Jayanand, you won't need the winter woolies over there! Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "PSM" <psm-1857 at googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 4:14 AM Subject: [Leica] Cuverville Island >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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >