Alone

AloneWhen you look around in Antartica its hard to grasp the immensity, then every so often you get a little reminder to put the grander in to scale. With naked eye this looked like a tiny rock but through the lens I could see it was a gentoo penguin slowly making its way to the crest of the ice. This photo helps me keep things in perspective and reminds me whats important. The struggle these penguins go through to stay alive through constant danger and

This was a very special shot Mark captured as was actually selected as a favourite by the whole ships expedition team for a wedding gift of our Expedition Leader at the time who got married in a tiny church on South Georgia

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no distance traffic just nature

The killer whales’ exhales echoed off the nearby cliffs as they moved slowly in our direction

Its incredible to witness these very social animals when they are swimming closely together in a tight group socialising like this

This mama bear actually had not two but three cubs but the last one hesitated to get in the water

with regards to wild and weather

In Inuit mythology the word Akhlut is a supernatural white wolf that can shape shift and transform into an orca when it enters the ocean

my sister was visiting and Id taken her out on the zodiac for sunrise which was also low tide

The sun has not set for months

This little one was less than a year old and part of the local Jpod resident family

On this occasion I was miles offshore at the entrance to the Juan De Fuca Strait on a rare day with very little wind