Close encounter of the leopard seal kind

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Trip End Dec 2007

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Flag of Antarctica Cuverville Island, Antarctica
Thursday, March 15, 2007

Today we were lucky as the weather was good enough for two excursions. The first was at Cuverville Island. We took the zodiacs across mirror like waters surrounded by glaciers with penguins waiting on shore. We climbed a hill behind the stony beach and saw humpbacks playing in the sheltered waters below and inquisitive baby gentoos came right up to us. We also spotted and followed a leopard seal on the way back. It seemed very curious about us and our zodiac so we could watch it swim under and around us in the pure clear water. Just as we were about to leave the leopard seal emerged from the water, stuck it's head right up and looked T in the eye. Magical! It was an amazing morning especially as we also saw humpbacks swimming around the ship with the sun rising over the icy mountains of the peninsula in the background.

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01 - Good morning Antarctica	02 - Good morning humpback	03 - Same to you!	04 - Another fluke
05 - Cuverville Island	06 - Spot the whale	07 - From the zodiac	08 - Glacier
09 - Gentoos on a mission	10 - Our path to the island	11 - Sleepy penguin	12 - Penguin rookery
13 - T among the penguins	14 - The bay	15 - Watch out for that Skua!	16 - Antarctic hills
17 - Staring at Sara penguin style	18 - D Management	19 - He's seen the light	20 - "Nice"-berg
21 - Ice dragon	22 - What's this?	23 - Could it be?	24 - It's a leopard seal!!
25 - Funky berg	26 - Another funky berg	27 - Humpback ready to fluke ...	28 - ... and there it goes!

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skry on Mar 29, 2007 at 08:36AM

You lucky people!
Loving the pics guys. The ice dragon one rocks and I love the 'He's seen the light' photo too :D

Gotta ask though - in the photo 'D Management', has Sara fallen asleep on the beach in the background? Is she hoping to lie still enough for penguins to inquisitively walk over? Or is it a ghost like in that movie 3 Men And A Baby...?