I know you’re all waiting on Antarctica photos, and have probably been a bit disappointed by my last few posts! They are scheduled usually around a month in advance, and I gave myself a few weeks after coming home for writing and photo-editing.

Because I’ll be posting them in chronological order, I decided for the next few weeks to do a second blog post each week with a photo from Antarctica! The usual Sunday blogs will be in order, starting in Buenos Aires. The mid-week blogs will be a photograph and a little snippet about it.

So here’s the first Antarctica Teaser post:

Hannah Point, Livingston Island, The South Shetland Islands.

Two Chinstrap penguins have a disagreement, and get rather muddy in the process. The colonies at Hannah Point were surrounded by clingy, gloopy mud, so there weren’t too many pristine penguins! In a colony so crowded, it’s impossible to have a good old-fashioned slap-fight without annoying the neighbours. When their slapping and pecking (with accompanying squawking and braying)  got out of hand, those around them ended up chasing them away from the chicks in the foreground. The two mud-caked Chinstraps waddled off down to the shore to clean their feathers and retrieve their pride.

Next Teaser Here!