Antarctica Pictures

The Penguins in Argentina amazed me every single time that I saw them, they are so cute and interesting at the same time.  I was able to interact with a group of penguins and get inches with the feisty chin strap penguins (click here to read post).  This specific picture was taken at Cuverville Island which has one of the largest Gentoo penguin colonies in the world.  When in Antarctica, I was even able to see penguin chicks being fed by their mother.  Incredible experience and would definitely recommend it to anyone!

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The penguins at Cuverville Island, Antarctica aren’t an aggressive bunch, the problem is that there is little real estate for each penguin family to have a nest.  I loved to watch the penguins try to walk through the entire penguin colony at Cuverville Island because it was similar to playing Frogger.  Each penguin had to make sure it didn’t run into any other penguins or even come close someone else’s nest.  What happened above is the penguin on the right snatched a pebble from the nest from the two penguins on at the top.  Nobody better lay a beak on my pebbles!

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Neko Harbour in Antarctica is one of the stops that most Antarctica cruises visit.  While most people swim at Deception Bay, there were a handful of people in my tour group that decided to strip and jump in the water at Neko Harbour.  The view you are looking at is after a small hike up the nearby hill where you they create a small snow slide.  There is a massive glacier on the right which you can see the beginning of just behind the ship to the right.  Its really hard to explain the size of the icebergs but you can compare them to the size of the ship.

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This guy was one of the highlights of my trip to Antarctica.  It was during the zodiac cruise tour (small cruise boats) that we were driving around looking at glaciers that we spotted this guy.  The small piece of ice that he was sitting on was sitting against a massive glacier.  The drivers of the boats actually maneuvered themselves to move the ice sheet away from the glacier so that everyone could see him.  Once we got in front of him he got up from his lazy position and posted his body on the small ice boulder you see in the picture (click here to see him stretching).  Then he just looked straight at us and started to smile.  Its like he has been on camera before, very cool experience.

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Curiosity killed the Penguin

This picture was taken in Deception Bay Antarctica during my trip to the great white continent.  This curious guy was one of the penguins that decided to completely surround me while I was in Deception Bay (see pics here) which is where most cruise operators take people to swim in Antarctic waters. There are various locations in Antarctica where you can view the penguins and if you are very aware of them they will come up to you as some of them are used to people.  Puerto Madryn in Argentina, specifically the Punta Tombo penguin colony, is a much better place to interact with the penguins since they are used to being around people since they are born.  It doesn’t have to cost a fortune to find a cruise to Antarctica either.  If you can’t afford to make it there are other options like the poor man’s Antarctica in Argentina which include the cities of Calafate and Puerto Madryn.

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