August 16: Gentoo penguins



Beautiful sleek Gentoo. Photo: Jacque Comery

Gentoo penguins. Photo: Jacque Comery

Gentoo penguin. Photo: Jacque Comery





Roosting Gentoo penguins. Photo: Jacque Comery

July 8: Footprints in the snow...

Gentoo Penguin footprints in the snow. Photo: Jacque Comery

June 16: Lookout Gentoo

Gentoo with an excellent vantage point. Photo: Jacque Comery

June 5: Starry starry night

A strange light was shining in through the cracks in my curtains. A crisp starry night with a full moon! Such a rare opportunity here must be seized, and so I threw my Carhartts overalls and jacket on over my pyjamas, and headed out from my cosy room on Station to attempt my first starry photos. Nights like these you really do feel that we are just a tiny little speck in the vast ocean under an endless sky.

Gentoo's under stars. Photo: Jacque Comery

The ANARESAT. Our lifeline to the outside world. Photo: Jacque Comery

View towards Handspike Point. Photo: Jacque Comery

Ghost Penguins. Photo: Jacque Comery

May 21: Gentoo penguins

Gentoo Penguin. Photo: Jacque Comery

Gentoo Penguins. Photo: Jacque Comery



Gentoos with The Nuggets in the background. Photo: Jacque Comery

April 21: Gentoo Penguins

Gentoo Penguin on Station. Photo: Jacque Comery

Gentoo penguins hanging out at the rear of station.  No one told them that they are standing in the Magnetic Quite Zone though! Photo: Jacque Comery

These guys are seen everyday waddling around between our buildings, with their silly orange feet. We just have to be patient and give way to them when we are trying to get work done.

April 20: Westerly beach scene at dusk.

Looking west from the isthmus out to Handspike Point. Photo: Jacque Comery

This arvo I went for a walk kind of late in the day and only had my old HTC phone in my pocket. ( No phones signal here but I use it as an alarm and a handy camera!)
Snapped this moody shot of dusk with a storm rolling in from the west.
On the far left is a posse of Gentoo penguins hanging out on the beach.

April 11: Refuelling the station and the beautiful Aurora Australis...not the ship

Jacque Comery and Ben Golden on the isthmus admiring the Aurora Australis (the southern lights). Photo: Justin Chambers

 A whisper went around the mess that there was an aurora starting to appear.  With my tripod still in cargo I ran outside to try to get some shots...to no avail.  Thankfully Justin our chef was prepared armed with his tripod and mad skills, and caught this great shot of Ben and I.  Longest I have stood still not breathing in my life and not giggled!

Aurora Australis over the isthmus. Photo: Justin Chambers

 The Aurora danced around the sky  for over an hour.  It gave us curtains, and halos and all sorts of colours.  I couldn't believe that in just the 2 days since we landed I had been treated to so many amazing sights.

A Gentoo penguin supervises refuelling of the station.  Photo: Jacque Comery

 Refuelling is one of the biggest events on the resupply calendar.  It requires nice cooperative weather to move over 200,000L of fuel from ship to shore by  floating pipeline.  Our successful resupply was the highlight of the day....well until the show stealing Aurora came along.

Transferring a years supply of diesel fuel from the ship to our station via over water pipeline. Photo: Jacque Comery

This picture shows the IRBs (inflatable boats) patrolling the fuel line checking for any signs of leakage, and the helicopter still sling loading cargo from the deck of the AA to keep operations running. Resupplying a sub-Antarctic station is an impressive logistics feat.