SALISBURY PLAIN, SOUTH GEORGIA

-JUST hANGING OUT WITH 400,000 KING PENGUINS
-Taking photos in the rain - protecting your gear

Salisbury Plain has the second largest colony of King Penguins in South Georgia and I am here to tell you that I doubt seriously if I would ever be able to tell the difference. It also has one of the islands largest elephant seal populations but on this expedition, the Kings were in fact...King!
Our group was scheduled at 6:00am and the weather was cold and drizzly. What a difference a day makes! Michael and I took precautions to protect our cameras as were told that we should prepare for stern landings = wet! What this meant was we would land as close to shore as possible and the crew would grap the Zodiak and pull it in. We splashed over the front sides in our now proven waterproof boots and off we went like little orange penguins one after another.
The sight of 400,000 penguins was unimaginable even though we had been told about it the evening before. They huddled together and were all in all pretty docile compared to the gentoos and chinstrap penguins we had encountered prior during our trip. The ground was wet and sloshy as we trundled up a pathway to get a better view.
There simply is no way to describe it so if you are interested, please click on the slideshow below: