Some Random Photos....

We just got into Palmer Station, so have quickly uploaded a few photos from the last few weeks. Will try and get a more cohesive post up here before we leave tomorrow, need to go through some photos to do it.......hope you all are well!

The aft of the ship, going through some islands at Marguerite Bay.

If I had a hammer.......me on Horseshoe island rock collecting....


Disturbed this fur seals snooze while using hammer.....



On the Antarctic continent (not one of the islands - woo hoo).

Gentoo from this morning. We went and collected equipment from a field station that has just closed for the season. Everyone went over in zodiacs and helped out, the weather was snowing and wet, so wasn't the best even for the birdies.


Coolest part of this morning - a leopard seal eating a penguin. I was in the zodiac with Stian when this happened. He came real close and checked the zodiac out, then went back to playing with and munching on his penguin. Totally cool.


Dave and Stian bringing back onboard one of the instruments - this is a megacore, collects mud in all those tubes (has large weights on top of the frame, so when it gets to the seafloor it's pushed into the mud, then as it's pulled out little trap doors at the bottom shut, trapping the mud in a perfect core).