After leaving Brown, we spent the evening on our way back west, towards Port Lockroy. We made our acquaintance with a range of ice forms on the way; I’m not sure which is which, but I believe that brash ice, growlers and bergy-bits were all floating in the startlingly calm sea:
Port Lockroy is the name both of the whole bay and of the British base on the minuscule Goudier Island. It has now been converted into a museum and souvenir shop/post office, made famous in the BBC film ‘Penguin Post Office’ (featuring Hurtigruten tourists!).
The half of the island behind the posts is solely for the use of penguins rather than tourists:
The research so far is ambiguous. It seems that penguins prefer to breed in the tourist-free zone, but they are successful in inhabited areas too. Under the museum is not a bad place, the main hazard being from other penguins:
The mountains of the surrounding Wiencke Island make a good backdrop for preening, or just doing some standing:
Most of the penguins were brooding; reproduction was also on the minds of the local skuas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6b4NALtOyc