Our Travel Stories

We started the day with visit to Cape Bird. We went ashore on zodiacs and this was first time we were allowed to freely roam (almost as we did have restrictions to avoid skua chicks).

We walked towards a Glacier. It was very interesting contrast with volcanic rock and gravel and the glacier.

And of course, there were Adélie penguins and seals to greet us as well.

So after Cape Bird, we reached Cape Royds. The area is protected by New Zealand Heritage group. At landing site, we were greeted by many weddell seals and Adele Penguins. It was a short walk to the hut. As many people do, we respected the hut and were thrilled to see the hut from inside.

Amazingly, in spite of two landings we were not done. We headed to Cape Chocolate with the hopes to seeing more wildlife and specifically Emperor Penguins, and we did find them. We saw two Penguins on an ice floe.

When we were repositioning to see if we could get the zodiac closer, we came across another Penguin and we soon realized that the Penguins were calling each other. This Penguin came very close to us. Our Zodiac driver Ben realized that we were blocking the Penguin and so we backed off. The Penguin immediately dived in the water and we only saw it again once he joined the other two penguins.

But we were still not done. The expedition team felt that the conditions were ideal to get all of us on an ice floe. That was amazing all on its own.