Thursday, February 11, 2010
Some images from the last week or so. The scale of some of the bergs near station is pretty impressive. If you look closely at the bottom of this whopper you can see the one of the IRBs (inflatable rubber boats) we use to get around and do our work from. The very next berg over had some black spots on it. As we suspected, they were Adelie penguins. What they were doing parked up there together is any ones guess. The big Elephant seal is one of the largest of the group on the beach in front of the station. Even at 3 metres long he's only a littlun though. The Ele's we get here are all juvenile males. When full grown they get much bigger, up to 4 or 5 metres and can weigh in at over 3 tonnes.
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