Tuesday 27 March 2012

Just one more penguin interlude before the start of science

Gentoo penguins
Well, you might have noticed by now that penguins amuse me. For years I have been looking for a chance to use a word that's undeservedly underused nowadays: "DROLL". If there is a word that describes these fascinating creatures, then it's "droll". Enjoy these few pictures from the East Cove colony west of Bertha's Beach.

Science is due to start soon. We're getting ready to depart into the Southern Ocean to measure how this ocean both creates our climate as we know it and how it reacts to changes. There are many days ahead of exciting experiments with hi-tec equipment on deck and hard graft and repetitive work below deck.

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