Visitors, like krill

We're still getting penguin and seal visitors (and the fur seals are trying to make the whole area look like Sea World), though it is slowing down a little as the summer draws to a close. This guy is a crabeater seal.

But there was a new experience last week when a huge amount of krill washed up onto the rocks and met their end on the rocks alongside station. Nature is cruel--this was definitely the end for these guys--but also it was kind of beautiful. (It's fuzzy but there's even a fur seal on the rock in the distance in the middle of the picture.)

These big fat krill are the reason whales come all the way down here and manage to fatten up over the Antarctic summer after they calve further north. Humpbacks, especially, are thriving at this part of the peninsula in recent years.