Jenny Varley

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Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctic Peninsula, 2015

We travelled on the Akademik Sergei Vavilov with Mark Carwardine and his team - Rachel Ashton, Joe Cornish, Pete Bassett and Roz Kidman-Cox. This team was outstanding in every way as were the One Ocean staff on board led by Boris Wise, surely one of the best Expedition Leaders! We encountered some brutal weather but also some magical days and overall the trip was amazing. We will never forget the sights, sounds and smells of hundreds of thousands of penguins plus elephant seals on South Georgia, but also the excursions in the Falklands, South Shetlands and the Peninsula. It is hard to think of a favourite, and also a little unfair, but Jason Harbour and Neko Harbour must be high on the list.

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A Grey-headed Albatross near Elsehul
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A Grey-headed Albatross near Elsehul

Scotia SeaSouth GeorgiaGreyheaded AlbatrossElsehul

  • A seven month old Wandering Albatross chick preening him/herself
  • A seven month old Wandering Albatross chick stretching its wings on Prion Island
  • Macaroni Penguins at Elsehul
  • A Fur Seal blocking the way for Macaroni Penguins to reach their colony
  • The endemic South Georgia Pipit
  • Porpoising Adelie Penguins near the South Shetland Islands
  • Another great sunset in the Scotia Sea
  • Cape Petrel
  • Cape Petrels escorting the Vavilov - a Goldstein-esque slow pan
  • A pair of Snow Petrels and an Antarctic Prion flying next to the ship
  • A Grey-headed Albatross near Elsehul
  • Surely the most beautiful of the Albatrosses, a Light-mantled Sooty
  • A Southern Royal Albatross, one of the so-called Great Albatrosses
  • The Great Albatrosses can be difficult to distinguish, but the pink-stained feathers behind the eyes identify this one with certainty as a Wandering Albatross, the largest flying bird in the world
  • Zodiac cruising around huge icebergs near Turret Point on King George Island
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