Our time in Antarctica was now drawing to a close, but we still had one landing to do, and that was at Yankee Harbour, on Greenwich Island, part of the South Shetland Islands. This also turned out to be my favourite penguin stop of the whole trip. During the 3 hours spent here we had lots of snow falling for much of the time, so much so, that the camera occasionally focused on the snow falling, rather than the penguins!!

As we walked along the spit towards the main part of the island, groups of Gentoo penguins were seen porpoising along the sea by us. Although we mostly missed getting them out of the water, occasionally we did catch them.

Gentoo Penguin making a splash.

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