"Free" wine and snacks in our cabin.
The wandering albatross has an average wingspan of over 10 feet, the largest of any bird!
Gentoo penguins. By far the most common species we saw.
My first time mountaineering.
Our ship, the Plancius.
Port Lockroy, "The Penguin Postoffice." It used to be a British research station, now it's just a tourist attraction.
Whale skeleton!
Alyssa with the amazing sunglasses she borrowed from a Ukrainian woman.
The HMS Protector supports British operations in Antarctica. It was picking up some of the folks working at Port Lockroy.
Leopard seal having a stretch.
The aptly-named chinstrap penguin.
This is an adolescent that's molting the last of the down they are born with.
Inside Port Lockroy museum.
Radio room.
Old school barometer.
This machine was used for research about the ionosphere, which lead to advances in high frequency radio.
These chains were once used by whalers to moor their ships.
Humpback whale! Sadly I didn't get a good photo of it's tail when it dove.
More humpback whales.
A young male fur seal.
An adélie penguin.
Alyssa is making friends.
A crabeater seal.
Camping in antartica!
Vernadsky research station was originally built by the British, by was sold to the Ukraine government. When it was still British it was called Faraday station, and played a key role in the discovery of the hole in the ozone layer.
Climate data collection.
An imperial shag, which is a type of cormoran. It flies over the water and dives in after fish it sees.
A weddell seal sleeping.
This is a salp, which is a little like a jellyfish.
A brittlestar.
Abandoned silos on deception island.
Fur seal giving me the side-eye.