Our final Zodiac cruise before the sailing further south gave us our best glimpse of the Macaroni Penguin. This species was only just arriving at their breeding grounds, as our cruise was a really early one in the Antarctic ‘Spring’. Our earlier sightings had just been a distant one on the Falkland Islands, and a small group hiding in heavy scrub from an earlier Zodiac cruise.

We were therefore delighted when a Macaroni Penguin was spotted standing on top of a very small island that we could sail close to. It certainly isn’t easy taking photos from a floating Zodiac, but fortunately, a few of the images I took turned out okay.

Macaroni Penguin.

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