More remote Island Work

 

Taking photos of the glacier edge never gets old.

This looks like it will be an new island soon. 

Little bit of ice let here. 

Melt. 

Snow bridge!!

Fur seal paradise! 

Whale bones!

Piece of Styrofoam that was too frozen in to get out, maybe in a month it will be free. 

Giant petrel coming in for a landing!

Moss garden. 

Gorgeous day for boating! 

Giant petrel chick! 

Gentoo skull. 

Glassy seas!

Fur Seals and beach clean up

Skua claiming king of the hill.

I love the colors of the snow algae this time of year. 

A lady fur seal!

A lot of fur seals!

A shaggy shedding fur seal. 

Some cool rocks. 

All the trash one beach collected since the last beach clean up at this site in 2020. 

This beach also collected a bunch of seaweed floats in this tide pool. 

Good day out beach cleaning!
 

Island Work

Very beautiful day to get out on the isalnd about 12 miles away and do some work of the weather station. 

The moss is loving the sun as much as I am! 

Gerlache island hiding behind Anvers. 

Station is that way, where the glacier meets the sea. 

The LMG was in the area doing some other science. 

Looking really tiny in the deep. 

Carrying the old broken parts down from the top of the island. 

Old penguin bones. 

Spot the Skua chick!