Photographic impressions from our travels…
Above: A Kelp Gull flies over a colony of King Cormorants nesting in the Beagle Channel at the tip of South America.
Right: A Rock Shag, a species of cormorants, sometimes called Magellanic shags. They are rarely seen but can be encountered around the Falkland Islands. This one was photographed off Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. They nest on cliffs or steep, rocky places.
A Gentoo Penguin mother with her young chick in a rookery on the south coast of the main island in the Falklands.
A Puffin from the Shetland Islands in the North Sea.
Out Of Service In Alaska
A rusting hulk of a steam engine sits alongside the tracks of the Yukon and White Pass Railroad in Skagway, Alaska. It once carried supplies and men into the Yukon looking for their fortunes in the Canadian gold fields. Abandoned almost 70 years ago it’s too heavy and too remote to salvage, so it just…
Coastal Alaska And Cruise Season
Looking out into Sitka Sound from the city of Sitka, Alaska you’ll usually find a number of cruise ships at anchor sending and visitors ashore. In the above image are a Silver Seas and a Hurtigruten Expeditions ship at anchor. Now with the opening of a new cruise ship pier just five miles out of…
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