 Dripping wet |
 Albatross |
 Gentoo |
 Gentoo penguins are about 3 feet tall and weigh about 13 pounds. |
 Gentoo x 3 |
 My first King Penguin sighting |
 Not the greatest picture, but look at those cute little baby penguin hineys |
 A day at the beach. |
 Let's get the flock out of here! |
 The screamer. |
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 Penguins, penguins everywhere |
 I loved this one because of the curled foot, the toenail marks in the sand, the closeup of feathers and the stretched out "arm". |
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 Wide angle |
 Most penguins can swim about 15 miles per hour. |
 Penguins don't fly, they swim. Someone forgot to tell this guy. |
 A whole colony leaving the water after feeding. |
 Evil little dude! |
 Rockhoppers have bright red eyes. |
 They use their flippers to swim. |
 Leaving the water after feeding. |
 Magellanic Penguin. They burrow and build their nests underground and are very shy. |
 Wet flock of rockhoppers |
 Oh, yes. We were lucky to see penguins in sillouette against the sunset. |
 A triple. |
 Foot |
 My compadres |
 Wet gentoo in golden light. |
 Albatross |
 You can see the landscape here |
 Flying albatross |
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 Clicking their beaks is part of the mating ritual |
 This guy hasn't finished molting yet. Not real attractive :) |
 King penguins out for a stroll |
 Gentoo's hunkered down in the blowing sand |
 The outside two are whacking each other with their flippers. |
 Now they all are all standing tall. With their necks stretched they are 6-8" taller than normal. |
 The albatross rookery |
 Mom and chick on the nest |
 My favorites, the Rockhoppers |
 He's in mid air. They can jump up and down to get up the rocks |
 Walking the trail from the water to home. |
 A little scratch |
 Hootie hoo (not really) see link below to hear them |
 Female Sea Lion and pups |
 South American Sea Lion bull |
 South American Sea Lion bull |
 The kelp can be pretty |
 Magellanic Snipe |
 Screaming penguin |
 Coming out from down under (the brood patch is what that fold of skin is called) |
 I think they are having words |
 Trying to sneak back in the brood patch |
 You can see the egg resting on her feet |
 Mom and baby. The mom and dad take turns taking care of the egg and the chick. |
 Hocking up some food for the baby |
 If you've seen my other albums you know I love the feet |
 Crested duck stretching his wings |
 Crested duck |
 Upland goose |
 Upland goose closeup |
 Peale dolphin |
 Commerson's dolphin |
 Quite a few Peale's and Commerson's |
 Rockhopper waddling down the trail |
 Love, love, love these guys! |
 A little penguin fight |
 Rockhopper close up |
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 Rockhopper close up |
 Caracara |
 Baby albatross |
 Grown albatross (black browed) |
 Aren't their eyes amazing |
 Magellanic Penguins burrow under ground. They are shy and crawl in their hole when you walk by. |
 Sea lions |
 Sea lions |
 Elephant seal |
 Big brown eyes |
 Cute "fingers" and fingernails |
 Kelp gull |
 Rock shag |
 Duh ... I feel like this some days |
 Landscape shot. The wind blew like crazy every single minute of every single day. |
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 Mom is caught between a rock and a hard place. Babies want to be fed. |
 A lot of birds |
 Rock shag feathers (and feet). Everywhere. |
 From the small plane. The islands are beautiful from the air. |
 Most islands are owned by someone and there aren't many roads, as you can see. |
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 Upland goose |
 South American Sea Lions |
 Sea lion with baby |
 Sleeping group of sea lions |
 One is awake and not very nice |
 Male with females and cubs |
 There were a lt of them |
 Silly elephant seal |
 Sand in the mouth |
 Cute |
 The "feet" |
 Fighting, but not seriously |
 More fighting |
 Pied Oystercatcher |
 Albatross rookery |
 Rockhopper jumping down |
 Blastoff! |
 Feeding the baby |
 Yelling at the baby |
 Coming in for a landing |
 Another baby feeding |
 Gentoo and Magellanic penguins in the same place (the Magellanics look like they have a "C" on their head) |
 Penguins, penguins and people everywhere |
 Nothing like a little peck on the butt. |
 Close enough for you? |
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