wildlife photography




Christmas and Boxing Day pass in a bit of a blur. We get our first chance to walk on water (oh, ok, it's fast sea ice - that mean's it's stuck to the land rather than floating freely in the ocean - but it's still water, even if it is frozen!) at Cape Washington, where we have an awesome day with Emperor Penguins and their chicks.

Fluffy Emperor chicks and mountaineering Adelie Penguins ...



First of all a Ross Seal decides to interrupt our lunch - it's such a rare sighting that the captain very kindly and adeptly manoevers the boat for the best position at a really close range (for a 400mm lens that is!). To put the rareness of this sighting into perspective - Sue Flood, our expedition photographer, says that in 35 years of working in the Antarctic, her husband (film-maker Doug Allen) has never seen even one Ross Seal, and now we've seen two!

Amundsen Sea – Ross Seals and the ...