Fortuna Bay

At South Georgia, the ship started to receive visits from Snowy Sheathbills:

The red stains are blood, and the green is penguin poo, which gives you an idea of their diet:

Fascinating fact #1: the sheathbill is the only Antarctic bird without webbed feet.

Fascinating fact #2: when constricted, a King Penguin’s pupil is square:

Many of the kings here were cooling down by bathing their feet in the streams which run off the glacier:

But the chicks, in their non-waterproof feathers, looked rather bedraggled in the cold and wet:

Elephant Seals showed their range of facial expressions:

While the Fur Seals were in fighting form, both females:

and males:

Meanwhile, the little monsters bide their time: