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Southern Ocean
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5 December 2007 | ||
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For many of the visitors to Antarctica the various sea days can become very boring, and during a 3-week trip via South Georgia this can be up to 10 days, but not for me. Much of my time was spent on deck, trying to get the perfect shot of the various magnificent seabirds, especially the Wandering Albatross with its 12-foot wing span. Unfortunately no perfect shots but a great deal of wonder. To the uninitiated the great Southern Ocean might well be a desert with very little evident life, but the truth is quite the obverse. A great variety of seabirds, primarily tube-noses, constantly flit across the wastes in search of food and we saw more than 10 different species, often hundreds of miles from the nearest land. Besides the majestic Wandering, the real highlight was early on when we found a locally rare Sooty Albatross who circled the ship for more than an hour. | ||
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