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Other animals and plants:
Other than the whales, sea lions, and penguins, we saw very little other animals. And almost no plants.
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| The skua was one of the few birds we saw. |
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| This was the only feather I saw on our hikes. |
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| This tiny mollusk was shown to us by one of our naturalists It attaches to a whale, up off the coast of South America. Then it traveled all of the way down here to get washed up on shore. |
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| These patches of lichen smaller than a dollar bill are centuries old. Things grow slowly in the cold. |
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| A rare patch of "grass" |
The very few human things we saw were mostly about whaling.
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| This was on our first shore walk. Touching is absolutely forbidden, yet people wanted to go up and sit on it. Our expedition team was fierce. |
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| Deception Island. A seal hunting site from 1818 then whaling station till 1931 Those huge tanks were for the rendered blubber. |
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| It is hard to express in photos how very big everything is. |
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| There is water, and ice, and some exposed rock. |




















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