The GCW Tour, Buenos Aires & Antarctica: Happy Thanksgiving (in Motion)!

Today is Thanksgiving, and aboard the MV Fram this was celebrated by including turkey and hamburgers among the forty different dishes they served for dinner. Unfortunately, the afternoon landing had to be abandoned when the ice wouldn't cooperate by creating a safe path from the Fram to the landing site. So instead, the landing got moved to the evening. This made a leisurely Thanksgiving meal pretty much a non-starter. 

Ah well. Penguins are better.

And this time they're even even better, since I actually managed to take penguin video. Now, for the first time on this blog, you can see penguin birth and penguin death in living color and action. Well, actually, mostly what you get is penguins standing around or walking around since it's not quite the time of year yet for birth and death. But still. Motion!

(Please note: I am a worse cinematographer than I am a still photographer, and, based on these twenty second videos, an even worse sound designer. Since all you'll hear is wind, I suggest turning the sound off on your computer.)

And speaking of the circle of life, the law of the jungle and all that, here's hoping for safe day at the mall for all of you that are heading out tomorrow in pursuit of Black Friday sales. Personally, I think I'd rather be a lone penguin swimming among a group of leopard seals.