{"id":118,"date":"2026-04-07T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:54:12","slug":"antarctica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/?page_id=118","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So a couple of years I got the chance to visit Antarctica. It was part of a cruise, so I got to visit Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Ushuaia and Tierra del Fuego. We got to see Whales, Dolphins and Seals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are some of my favourite pictures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black Browed Albatross. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heading south from Buenos Airies, once the tempurature dropped and I needed to wear a jumper on deck, there they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Together with Giant Petrels just effortlessly floating just above the surface of the water circling the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once we sailed past Cape Horn and into Drakes Passage, the tempurature dropped further and we woke up to Icebergs <\/p>\n\n\n\n

this is my favourite, I love the shape <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are some images of the waters around the Antactic Peninsula. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Penguins, Chinstrap in this case<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two Gentoo here, though there is evidence of several more<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are a mix of Chinstrap and Gentoo Penguins hitching a ride<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While we were there we saw the Marama<\/a> as it worked its way through the bergs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So a couple of years I got the chance to visit Antarctica. It was part of a cruise, so I got to visit Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Ushuaia and Tierra del Fuego. We got to see Whales, Dolphins and Seals. Here are some of my favourite pictures Black Browed Albatross. Heading south from Buenos Airies, once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}