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Sarah's Travel Blog
Friday, January 02, 2009
 
The next day, we went to West Point island and hiked over it to
an even larger albatross colony which was tucked away in the hillside.
This one had all kinds of features...a freshwater stream where penguins
were taking baths, a large colony of Albatross and penguins together,
and big grasses to hide behind to get nice close shots. I tried not to
take 20398476 baby penguin photos, and failed miserably. The caretakers
of the island provided a proper British tea for us at the end, and in
their honeysuckle bush I found a large spider with a big green abdomen
and had to do acrobatics to get a decent photo. Later that day, we went
to Carcass Island, where we landed on a sandy beach full of penguins and
geese. The geese looked like herds of livestock covering the hillsides.
I went out with a group of botanists and found some really cool
probably endemic plants to photograph, then went snipe hunting and shot
two (with a camera of course. When we got to the beach on the far side
of the island, it looked like a typical tourist beach with some playing
in the waves, others swimming, some lying on the beach, and some taking
walks up and down, except there were no people ONLY penguins! It was
like the Cozumel of the penguin world. It was kind of like the opposite
of a nude beach in that it was so formal, there were no swimsuits, but
everyone was wearing a tux. We watched penguins slip and slide down the
sand dunes which was hugely entertaining.

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