January 2015
Well, I thought last month was busy! I’m going to sound like a broken record here, but the first month of 2015 has been nothing short of crazy.
We had a tourist ship drag anchor (quite a worrying thing for a ship) due to 60+ knot winds when they had 72 passengers still ashore. The ship weighed anchor and stopped Zodiac operations until the wind dropped. That meant the 72 had to sleep in various buildings over at the museum. The builders and museum staff pulled an abnormally long shift to set up mattresses, blankets (we keep a stock for such occasions) and cook several massive pots of pasta to feed them. The passengers quietly rejoined the ship the next morning and went about the rest of their cruise. Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures of the event. I believe most of them took it as an adventure, although a few were slightly panicky.
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Great shots Matt.Looking at you though it seems that the good life is taking over! Take Care and I guess you will be back in U.K. before too long
Hello Mr Croy, haha yes life is good – I’m actually loosing weight now (if you are saying I’m a fat knacker between the lines) Should be back in the UK late summer – unfortunately not on Raasay late june 🙁 It’s a big one this year isn’t it?
Having eradicated the deer, and now the rats, have they also eradicated the penguins? There was only one sad little penguin in this month’s blog, and they hardly ever appear in others. You may be so used to them that you don’t even notice them, but I would like to see and hear lots more stuff about penguins, please!
PS Any chance they might eradicate dodgy beards next?
Nice photos. The penguins are always getting leathered in these pics. I wonder how many penguins it would take to take down a leopard seal?
Santa Claus must be cross with the Norwegian boys.
It would take a massive jump in penguin intelligence to coordinate an effective attack on a Leopard seal. If you’re thinking of the Velociraptor attacking the T-rex in Jurassic Park being a similar match as penguins v a Leopard seal I’d say you’re a little off. I reckon a Lep could take double figures of penguins before they were in any serious trouble – depends on what kind of penguin as well.
What do they do with the reindeer carcasses? Guess they can’t just leave them lying around, or the rats would eat them and ignore their poison.
Tord and Petre could create an ‘anti-Christmas card’ for next year. Featuring an image of their ‘one-bullet-three-reindeer-kill’ shot. John Lewis might make an advert based on it.
Last year the carcasses were left for the Skuas and GP’s to enjoy. This year the ones shot before the rat team arrived were left for the birds but the defiant 3 were butchered for the best meat and then shoved into a lake so the rats wouldn’t go for them.