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Brown Bluff Travel Post
It had snowed last night. The visibility was very poor. And the weather condition was bad. We had to wait till the early afternoon for our last day of adventure on the Antarctic Peninsula. After lunch we made our landing on Brown Bluff. The location had a gorgeous ice-capped, flat topped 745 meter high mountain with a prominent cliff of reddish-brown colour. For a moment it reminded me of forts in Rajasthan, India. The cliff is part of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group on the north face and is home to thousands of Adelie and Gentoo penguins as also to Kelp gulls, Skuas, Snow and Pintado petrels. To my amazement, a huge Weddell seal came out of the waters and gradually inched his way up the little beach and on to the snow. Pausing for breath, the fat guy took at least 30 minutes to travel the distance of 20 feet or so! Read more… |
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