We left Whalers Bay and repositioned to Telefon Bay, further into Port Foster, for the last landing of the trip. It is another snow-free volcanic gravel beach, also geothermally active with obvious steam rising. That may have helped with one activity planned, an Antarctic polar plunge swim off the beach! Telefon Bay was covered in poached krill which the Brown Skua loved. They are large birds (~160 cm wingspan, ~2 kg), about 20% larger than the Black-back Gulls seen in New Zealand. Seems they are not much-admired birds, opportunist scavengers and take penguin chicks (although eat fish too), but I... Read more →
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