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Imprinting Winter Beauty

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by: Susan King

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Imprinting Beauty

Want to go? Antarctic Dream: Antarctic Dream Expedition

I went to: Argentina, Ushuaia, Antarctica, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Buenos Aires
A Gentoo Penguin on Half Moon IslandThe tip of South America from aboveUshuaia in the springThe city of UshuaiaThis picture was taken around 10 or 11pm.The Antarctic Dream! This is our boat!Yay! I'm excitied!Our room with 2 port hole windowsLife jacket training....nice and brightA Cape Petrel...this is the best I get with my cheap cameraA lecture on penguins...very informativeDinning room chairs chained to the groundMore birds following the boat!Look at all the windows: perfect place to watch & keep warm.Video group from Hong Kong...these guys were great!Stepping onto Antarctica!!!!!!Deception Island...it still has an active volcanoA Chinstrap PenguinSinging a song...you could hear it from the vesselCrazy...I know, but the sting of the cold was well worth itGentoos on ice...Can you see a bit of the blue?Neko HarbourFootprints glowing blue!!! Neko HarbourThey stoled a penguin egg and are eating it.Those dots are people and the dark areas are Gentoo coloniesHow can you not take time to make a snowman?I loved watching how the penguins truly marched in linesSee the egg? This is hard, muddy work!Taken while eating dinner. There were always things to seeThese are the Adelie...an explorer named them after his wifeThe seal is a predator in the water, but too slow on land.Petermann Island...where three men were last seen.Pleneau BayDoesn't it almost look fake?This is one of my favorite ones.Orcas!Look the ice looks like a penguin!The "vulture" birds at Port Lockroy.Look how close these penguins are to the shackMy little Weddel seal...so cute! See the red mark?The Leopard seal with zodiac in backgroundThe wreck of the "Governonren"...a whaling boatThis was an amazing ice berg!!! Look how bule the water is!There's not substitue for the real thing, but here's a try.See the mountain tops fading into the haze?Tea in the dinning areaPort LockroyAppetizerGetting ready for dinner...look at all the kinds of bread!From the back of the boat looking in...I think this is a type of Albatrosses but not sure.Another artist appetizer...see the big windows?Dessert and wineMap of journey with artistic flare. This was auctioned off Captain on the right and his crewThis flag hung for the voyage and was signed by all.Back in Ushuaia...last night spent in harbor...very calm.Walking up the glacierNear the top! It was cold, but what an accomplishment.A stray dog just hanging out near the top.The tourist stores had changed while we were gone.There goes the next expedition! We watched from shore.Yum!! Italian gelato amazingly flavorful, creamy and cheap!Empanadas! Favorite SA Treat! Yum!