Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Penguin Highways

We woke up this morning to an absolutely gorgeous Antarctica morning. Blue skies as far and the eye can see and stunning light for picture taking had everyone giddy with anticipation.

We made a morning launch to see the largest Gentoo Penguin rookery on record. Those little guys are mighty entertaining! On this island, the penguins have made paths through the snow called penguin highways and we could watch lines of penguins following each other down the highway. They have the right of way when our trails crossed and Catherine and I got stuck in a bit of a penguin traffic jam. If anyone hasn’t checked the Fram webcam lately, it is now being updated!

Perfect weather, warm sun bouncing off the crystal snow, I am gonna stop blogging and go outside. We have another landing later today at Port Lockroy – an abandoned British station that is now a historical site.

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