Day 524 - Paradise Harbor, Antarctica Day 7
Paradise Harbor
Afternoon - Day #3 of excursions and our seventh day on this Antarctic journey. Our ship slowly navigates past an immense iceberg, a good square mile in size, as big as our neighborhood, as we head toward Paradise Harbor and beyond the Almirante Brown Antarctic base station, a missile of an island surrounded by penguins. We zodiac around the island and see pretty much everything as big, fluffy flakes of snow begin to fall – skua birds in search of penguin eggs and baby penguins, if they get a chance; a nest of cormorants, one of which I catch in slow motion, winging its way above us; another humpback galumphing by, and chinstrap and Gentoo penguins clinging to the rocks. Some of these chicks may not make it before the early austral winter sets in. Occasionally we see crabeater or leopard seal – one of which gives me a toothy yawn as I pull out my iPhone. Lucky me. Take a gander at the videos.
