Is it possible to be two days into 2015?
We cruised slowly through the night and were off our landing site of Yankee Harbour by 6 AM. It is a lovely bay ringed by glaciers with a dramatic cliff exposing the eroded roots of a large shield volcano above a prominent moraine where the penguins nest. I gave a presentation on glaciers on glaciers, ice bergs and sea ice this morning, so only spent the afternoon out in the site. There were chicks only a few days to hours old! There were really very cute.
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| Note two sets of baby chicks - likely only a day or two old. |
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| More chicks! |
The Gentoos were nesting on a long moraine that had a few seals hauled out on it.
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| Juvenile crab-eater seal. |
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Molting juvenile elephant seals.
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Behind the penguins was a dramatic cliff of lava flows cut with dykes.
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| Landing area on the large moraine shows cliff, but by dykes. |
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