Leo - our cool Argentinian guide/scientist

Chicks stay like this over winter and then get an adult coat.

Gold Harbour

February 9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ⋅ ⛅ 1 °C

In the afternoon we headed to another smaller but no less dense King Penguin rookery at Gold Harbour. However here we could walk at eye level to the rookery and observe the penguins more closely. Check out the video in which two male penguins are having a slapping contest over who gets a particular female. The highlight here was we saw young male elephant seals for the first time - these blokes are not sexually mature yet which is when they get the enlarged proboscis (nose) but they are still big - maybe 1.5 tonne but they get to be the enormous beachmaster bulls that weigh in at 2 - 2.5 tonne and can rear up to 3m height!Read more