SEVENSEAS Marine Conservation & Travel February 2016 Issue 9 | Page 53

n Adelie penguin dances across the path in front of me as I kneel in the corn

snow waiting to guide our guests around the colony with as little disruption to the animals as possible. The penguins can approach you, but it doesn’t work the other way around, so closeups can take patience (or a big lens).

fter traveling with the ship alongside three different pods of orca (each representing a

different phenotype), and after floating above curious Minke whales in my Zodiac, and after hiking to obtain spectacular sights of thousands upon thousands of penguins, or open views of endless mountains and glaciers, I was happy for even just a little taste of Antarctica this season. And so I’ll try to coax a moment or two back to life through a photo to share with you.

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