ON Nordenskiold next expedition Lorraine Johnston, historian of the morning we woke up and saw through the window of the island of Pula. After 3 days sailing on the sea, we got Scott to Antarctica. By 8 am we were on a narrow stone beach, surrounded by 100,000 pairs of Adelie penguins. The entire island is teeming with them simply (though its diameter is only one mile). Around life was in full swing - there were so many penguins are waddling walk between the sea and nests that were almost impossible to walk along the beach. Penguins are rightful owners. If they go to the beach, then you need to stand and wait, and they stop and stare at you, it's a hopeless situation, but you just need to wait until they decide to go further. When they reach the end of the beach, again happens jam - leopard seals combing the area, imperceptibly gliding among ice floes, sometimes looking around in search of penguins. On the way to the island of Pula Adelie penguins with chicks on the island of Pula Large flocks of penguins deliberately marking time from one end of the beach to another, trying to find a site where there are no predators. They were constantly stopped, very carefully examine the place and continue to move. Completely unclear why they do not like this or that place. In the end, the penguins on the edge of becoming so many that begin to push back the front, and they stumble and fall into the sea. As soon as the first dive safely, others too are beginning to jump into the water, but only 10 seconds, and then they suddenly stop, quickly look around and go find another place. Penguins on the move breeding penguins on the island of Pula on the beach were so many penguins that we had to sail an inflatable boat with a motor on the other side of the island. Why? Birdwatchers would like to see the colony of cormorants, I wanted to look at what remains of stone huts - yes, the one that built the Nordenskiold expedition members (Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskiold - a Swedish explorer, approx. Perevi.). It is known that in the building attended by members of the crew of the expedition ship, which sank on the way back, when going to choose to winter on the island of Snow Hill team of researchers. Penguins nest in the ruins and beside them, and even at the grave of one of the members of the expedition - this is something sentimental: penguins live on, if people here have never appeared. The standoff finally success! The Penguins found a suitable site for diving. Even without all these bright events, a short trip on a motor inflatable boat was nice. Boat squeeze between ice floes, podplyvaya pretty close to the Weddell seals, which rested on those ice floes. Seals are only slightly lifts his head, threw us a glimpse and then forgotten in a dream. Some of them were watching the penguins, who were running up and down the coast in search of a ski jump and jumped into the water. But all these events pale before the moment when the plover white (like a seagull, wherein the yellow color of the meat, or beak, as well as large size, wing length about 25 cm, nesting on the islands of the South-West Atlantic, ca. Perevi.) Decided to land on head of a passenger boat and sit there good 5 minutes. She drove only after she tried to bite someone. All considered, this case is fairly amusing. Even the man who ran our boat, and the most serious ornithologists laughed heartily, but, unfortunately, not all keep calm in order to fix this moment for posterity! The bird decided to land right on the head to one of the tourists Adelie penguins in a jump over the water returning to the ship, we spent the rest of the day, enjoying the wonderful scenery. Our ship passed by the island of Vega, where the troops met with the Nordenskiold Expedition Hope Bay and the Bay Islands Snow Hill. We sailed around icebergs terrific shape, decorated with magnificent beauty of icicles. Icebergs are tinted with such shades of blue, whose existence we never knew existed. We broke through the drift ice and went out into the bay Dusan on the east side of the Arctic peninsula. Bay was named in honor of one of the Nordenskiold expedition members (he was one of three explorers who landed in the Bay of Hope Bay and had to get to Snow Hill Island). When there are lots of penguins at the same time jump out of water, the sea looks like a boiling Dusan Bay was completely covered with dense solid ice and kidnapped several large icebergs. To the coast was about three miles. At the edge of the ice paced huge crowds and Adelie penguins, and sea seemed to boiling because of the numerous birds frolicking in it. In a flock of flying birds, we noticed two emperor penguins. When you see them side by side, you know how emperor penguins are larger than other species. Surface of the sea continued to change. At times it seemed that the sea is about to freeze to death, covered with a thin layer of ice. Everything was so beautiful that it was hard to believe that we have seen with my own eyes. Species in Antarctica at Cape Bird cliffs out to the surface between the elongated mass of glaciers flowing into a frozen sea. At the base of one of the rocks, near the border of floating ice was a small, free from snow beach. The captain sent a ship in thick ice to stop the drift. We plunged into an inflatable motor boat and went to the beach where we had to step directly on the ground of the continent Antarctica. We have quite a long time playing snowballs and build a snowman in honor of the conquest of the sixth continent. On the way back to the ship, we stopped to pick up a few chunks of glacial ice. He is very old, and for a long time so compacted that it does not remain even the slightest of air bubbles. The ice was transparent as glass, and we found a lot of natural formations from it, the most bizarre forms. Glacier ice was a nail picnic on the boat. All the fun night, dancing on the bow of the ship with a Russian crew. The ancient glacier ice thin ice on the surface of the water And here we stand at the bow of the ship, drinking gin and tonic and ice thousands of years, look at the dense ice pack against the backdrop of mountains and penguins, sometimes marching somewhere in the gentle evening light. Is that something could be better? Vega Island and Icebergs See also: Antarctica: the route for tourists of all ages
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