Rec boating!!

My first afternoon of rec boating was soooo amazing. In addition to the Bahia wreckage, we saw chinstrap, adelie, and gentoo penguins (the three types that most frequently hang around this area), a leopard seal swimming past our boat, tons of elephant seals (the massive bulls looking impossibly large as they rested on land), skuas hanging out near the penguin colonies, hoping to poach eggs, giant petrels nesting, cormorants skimming the water, beautiful icebergs...and it was about 40 degrees out on a windless, sunny, perfect day. Just...wow.

We even went out to visit the iceberg that you have probably seen in a lot of my landscape shots from station. The winter crew named this berg "Old Faithful" and it was really fun to see it from close-up.