Few lakes on the planet are situated further south.
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Strolling With Magellanic Penguins on Martillo Island
A visit to an island colony that’s the seasonal home for more than 3,000 pairs of mating Magellanic Penguins.
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Trees shaped by the wind. I hugged the one on the right.
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Face on a leaf.
Continue readingChilean Skua, on the Beagle Channel
Another recent discovery, more than a dozen years after the fact: these two images of a Chilean Skua who seemingly gate-crashed a gathering of several hundred pairs of Magellanic Penguins on Isla Martillo.
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Stalking birds during their lunch hour.
Continue readingImperial Cormorant – Chilean Patagonia
The Imperial Cormorant, or Shag, is ubiquitous in Patagonia. Plastic pollution is ubiquitious across the planet, so it was not surprising, if sad, to see the two meet along on this Pacific shore in Punta Arenas, Chile.
Continue readingKelp Gull, in Patagonia
The Kelp Gull is the dominant large gull species in much of the southern hemisphere. I mostly remember it for how it stood up to fiece winds as our boat crossed Lago Nahuel Huapi.
Continue readingThe World’s Most Beautiful Cemeteries – Punta Arenas, Chile: a Tour in 19 Photos
About a year and a half ago, CNN correspondent Bruce Holmes came up with a list of 10 of the world’s most beautiful cemeteries. Purely by happenstance I visited two on his list within 13 days of one another; the second of the pair, the municipal cemetery in Punta Arenas, Chile, just 15 days before his… Continue reading
Dolphin Gull, in Ushuaia
Spotted along the Beagle Channel in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world.
Continue readingA Park at the Planet’s Edge: Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego National Park
If this scene reminds you of what the edge of the world might look like, it’s because it’s close. This is the view over Lapataia Bay at the southeastern corner of Tierra del Fuego National Park, a body of water that extends towards the Beagle Channel which itself leads towards the Southern Ocean north of… Continue reading
Austral Negrito, on the Beagle Channel
Another shot from my Beagle Channel trip, this is a male Austral Negrito (Lessonia rufa), who I spotted watching several hundred Magellanic Penguins on Martillo Island.
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