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Another Auster Panorama

Heres another stitched panorama of Auster . This one was taken earlier than the other one I posted on the 25th August when there birds were still staying pretty close and tight together 

Aurora timelapse

After a few attempts I finally managed to upload a video I put together of several nights of Aurora timelapse .

There are several differnet ways of doing the timelapse all here with shutter speeds , interval and frame rates all diffent . By the time I think I got the best mix my camera got smashed so I couldnt really do any more . If you watch how fast the stars are moving that will give you an idea

 

 

Auster Panorama

I stitched a few pics together of Auster . Hopefully you can blow this up and have a good look . I think if you right click on the image you can open it in a new tab and then zoom in but might take a while to load properly

 

North from Davis

The first 2 days out of Davis were pretty good with quite a bit of pack ice and bergs ofcourse and plenty of wildlife including a berg with thousands of Antarctic Petrels roosting on it

Davis 

Berg near Davis 

Late night sun at Davis 

RSV Aurora Australis 

Farwell Davis 

Last glimpse of Davis 

Frazzle as the sea begins to freeze again 

Adelies on a berg 

Making our way through loose pack ice 

An Antarctic Fur seal . A visitor form further north these guys can walk on their flippers 

1000’s of Antarctic Petrels on a berg 

Bird Berg

Bird Berg

Berg with a massive creavasse that has been filled with snow . You wouldnt want to drive over this when it waspart of the ice cap 

 

The elusive Leopard seal . Only one i saw all year 

The last of the pack ice 

Another Mawson Blog

For those of you that would like to keep up with the going on down at Mawson this year Nate who is a dieso this year is blogging

http://www.discover-nate.com/

 

Mawson to Davis

We left Mawson late Saturday and arrived at Davis late Monday . Lots of sea ice and lots of bergs as we crossed the Fram Bank

Scullin Monolith east of Mawson . Home to tens of thousands of birds

Crabeater Seals

Yes another Ice berg but everyone is different and spectacular in its own way

Old flying saucer base

Emperors outfeeding before thenew breeding season starts in May

A very large berg with holes and arches

bergs and more bergs

Weaving through the bergs

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Crossing the Fram Bank

Young Elephant seal

Pics from the trip home

I will do a few posts with some photos of the trip home . These are of the last day at Mawson and the evening before

Mawson 

Mawson looking over West Arm 

sunset 

sunset 

midnight sun 

midnight sun 

Lonely figures bid the ship farewell 

The last leg

So now the final leg begins . 429 days after leaving Perth it’s on a plane to head home.