We often saw penguins making long, arduous treks for no reason apparent to us. Where is this guy going?
On board the Greg Mortimer expedition ship we continued to cruise among giant icebergs and islands, looking for penguins and seals. The photos in these Antarctica blogs are shown in the approximate order in which they were taken. So you are seeing the trip unfold as I saw it. The best is yet to come…
Photographs similar to this are the goal of many whale photographers. The whale tail only pops out of the water when the whale is on its way down, diving deep into the ocean to feed on plankton.
The whale tail coming up and out of the water happens much less often than the more common breaking the surface for air and feeding near the surface. Seeing the tail out of the water like this indicates the whale is diving down deep to feed. All the photographers set their camera to motor drive and press the shutter down time after time and get no sign of a tail. One in 20 sightings, or so it seems, result in the whale fluke rising out of the water.