Pi Island, again

I certainly haven't been to all the islands near Palmer that we're allowed to land on and walk around. But I've been out in rec boats enough now to have made repeat visits to a couple of them. One nice return visit was to Pi Island, on kind of a gloomy day when we didn't want to go too far out in case it started pouring rain.

On the way we stopped and said hello to some seals. (As promised before, I am terrible at ID-ing and am not sure if these are crabeaters but I think they are.)

It was lovely to see, again, the striking olivine deposits in the rock of Pi Island, made even more vibrant green by the drizzling rain.

Since my first visit a couple months ago, the ice has melted so much more that this time we could get around the whole island, and did.

One of the krill researchers even found a dead krill on the rocky beach.

A bunch of elephant seals (a bit easier for me to ID than the others) were hanging out and putting on a show for us.

And this time we even climbed up onto the glacial remnant that tops Pi Island. Not sure how many years any of this ice will remain, so have to enjoy it while we can.

All of it! Oh, Antarctica....