I'm getting used to the questions people ask but am not getting better at my answers. I should just respond with pictures. Once people realize I'm not making some clever joke about the cold weather in NYC and realize yes, I went to Antarctica, they are curious to know why and what I was doing there. Did you get close to the animals? The answer is that the animals got close to us and sometimes without our knowledge. On day one I was lucky enough to capture some footage of a seal gliding under my kayak via the GoPro. Below is a screen shot from that footage.
In some of the videos I posted you can see underwater footage. The underwater footage is from the trip and was filmed by both passengers and staff using the GoPro attached to a 4-6 foot pole submerged under water. We were shocked to see these next photos capturing a curious seal poking our kayaks without our knowledge.
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| The seal investigated and poked a few of our kayaks from below. |
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| The seal was not quite sure what to make of these yellow objects! |
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| The seal poking a kayak; in the video you can see slight movement which I'm guessing we thought was from the water or wind at the time. |
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| The seal continued to examine and poke the kayaks from below! |
GoPro is also how we captured the underwater scenes of the seal killing the penguin. Check out the video if you're not sensitive to blood.
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| The leopard seal playing with his recently killed penguin. We learned in seal class that this is typical behavior. I'll post more on seals at a later date; we were fortunate to have both a whale and seal expert on board to give lectures and comment on what we witnessed during our excursions. |
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