Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Elephant Island

We land on the exact spot where Sir Ernest Shackleton's crew spent four months awaiting rescue while Shackleton sailed to South Georgia. Pretty cool. Of course at this time of year it's overrun with chinstrap penguins.

All was not safe for the chinstraps, however. We spot a leopard seal (first one we've seen) hunting for a meal, and in an episode that makes Debb chant "Circle of life..." the leopard seal catches a chinstrap and munches on him. Scavenger birds clean up the remains.

 

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