Animal visits

The amazing animal visits continue.

Chinstrap penguins are less common around here than Adelies (on the decline as global temps warm) or Gentoos (coming further south into our area much more commonly than they used to now that everything is warmer) so it's pretty exciting when one hops up on the rocks at station.

We've also seen crabeater seals stopping by for a visit near the pier:

And this AMAZINGLY huge leopard seal that spent a whole afternoon resting on a bergy bit that was floating right near station.

You can't see it too well, because silly me I don't have a camera other than my iPhone, but there's a Weddell seal in the lower half of this picture, in the snow that is pointing to the right, just lazing about on a Sunday morning.