Southern Ocean
It’s the story some of us feared – a calm day in the allegedly fearsome Drake Passage. Today’s unreasonably calm seas will make it difficult for us to return home with tall tales of intrepid behavior amidst the fabled towering swells of the icy southern sea. Instead, many of us took advantage of the opportunity to zoom in on some of the local wildlife (wildlife zooming by, not pictured). The photographers shown here are just a few of the many taking part in the Photo Expedition to the Far South. But photographer or not, we were all entertained today by the languid fly-bys of large albatrosses, the slightly more frantic fluttering of pintado petrels, and the practically bat-like zigzagging of many prions. And as for the rough seas of legend, well there’s always tomorrow.
It’s the story some of us feared – a calm day in the allegedly fearsome Drake Passage. Today’s unreasonably calm seas will make it difficult for us to return home with tall tales of intrepid behavior amidst the fabled towering swells of the icy southern sea. Instead, many of us took advantage of the opportunity to zoom in on some of the local wildlife (wildlife zooming by, not pictured). The photographers shown here are just a few of the many taking part in the Photo Expedition to the Far South. But photographer or not, we were all entertained today by the languid fly-bys of large albatrosses, the slightly more frantic fluttering of pintado petrels, and the practically bat-like zigzagging of many prions. And as for the rough seas of legend, well there’s always tomorrow.
