In the middle of the Island in rainforest, the Central Park campsite is peaceful, cool and well laid out. Camp sites are level, clearly labelled as for tents or camper trailers and scattered around with enough room for privacy.
Tag: wildlife
Spring has sprung
Antarctic in winter as a preview of death!!! In winter the landscape does seem impassive but with the return of life the landscape has become more interactive. You get a response. A seal pup rolling around on the ice annoying its mother. A snow petrel playing chicken with the wind turbine. Squa’s hanging around watching everything intently like a fat kid at a buffet.
Penguin poo smells really bad
…when we find the first little footprints in the snow that signal the Adelie penguins have started to arrive home.
Soon the Island will be swarming with hundreds of penguins. They will be fighting over little rocks, laying eggs and keeping watch. The Rookery Island will be a place of energy, action and lots and lots of fresh smelly poo!!!!!
Emperor penguin chicks
Kneeling we are almost eye to eye, when you look directly at the birds they shuffle like naughty children, nudging each other to the front of the group. When you look through the camera or away from them, you can hear them shuffling closer on the ice, occasionally they peer up the lens of the camera.
A sunny day in paradise
The light shines on the glaciers highlighting the ancient blue glacial ice that peeks through the snow that has clung to the icy surface. It reflects off the snow and ice, bouncing up to blind my eyes as I walk across the station. Looking across the Islands and ice bergs it is easy to see that spring is only a few days way
Jen Wressell 