Falklands with Wildlife Worldwide Travel - Volunteer Point - Part 5

 This is my final post from the Falkland Islands.  We all flew back to Stanley from Bleaker Island.  I was last again with Angela.  Luckily we were back in time to do some Christmas shopping and I bought more wool.

The next day we took the 3 hour drive to Volunteer Point.  A day making images of King Penguins.  What more would you want?  I could have done without the freezing wind and the hail but hey!

Linda with a curious immature King penguin

I want to be fed

This one was trying to get up but failed while I was watching

I still want to be fed.  He did get something eventually but they turned their back on me

Kings in the hail

Kings on the beach

Sheltering 

Mirroring

Scratching that itch

That's it.  The next post will probably be in April when I am off to York for the RPS Visual Art group Spring weekend.

Falklands with Wildlife Worldwide Travel Part 4 - Bleaker Island

 So to our last island.  Sea lions feature more on this island.  I arrived second again.  The others were waiting for us to have lunch then a walk out to see the sea lions and then the rockhoppers in the evening.

Male sea lion with his harem

Lunch

Macaroni penguin with hybrid Southern rockhopper chick

Flying in

The next day we went back to the sea lions and in the afternoon Kevin drove us to Sandy bay where we experienced lots of wind which made the penguins look as if they were in snow.

Whale skeleton

Scratching an itch

A second bull 

Red eyes

Magellanic on a cliff

Black chinned sislen

On Sandy bay in the wind

Flowering sea cabbage

At the rockhopper colony with the cormorants in the evening

Multiple exposure in camera.  He needed to be placed to the right.

Nearby the lodge was the imperial cormorant colony and we spent the morning taking thousands of images, most of which I deleted!  It was good to see a chick though it is probably the ugliest of all the chicks I had seen.  Then back to Sandy bay in the afternoon where I had a quick dip in the sea before making more images.  A few of us went back in the evening over to the Gentoo colony for some sunset images.  There are only 3 gruesome images of Skuas eating chicks which will be after the usual warning signs.

Grooming

Feeding the snakelike chick

Tug of war

More sand and wind images

Stop looking at me

Upland geese

Evening light

Shaking the droplets 

Just one more post from Volunteer Point.

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Skua on Sandy bay with penguin chick

Click on this for larger image.  A skua right of the middle, has a chick in its beak.

Skuas fighting over the torn chick