 Wow! That's some trip. I've got loads of questions. The most important thing first: what does it feel like to stroke a penguin? Do their feathers ever dry out or do they always feel slightly clammy?
And then I'd like to know what happened to the scrap metal. Was it recycled or just dumped in the sea?
--Mjausson
Ps: Any more penguin pictures?
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 I was going to ask - though it seems a bit petty when there's rusty scrap dumped all over the place - whether you're supposed to stroke penguins at all. And whether they smell strongly of fish.
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 Penguins smell strongly of penguin shit. Penguin shit smells very strongly (especially if red, i.e. of the krill variety).
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 Clive all I can say is WOW!!
Why is it that they never mention anything like that in my lectures!, you really do get some good jobs, also glad to see that finally people are clearing up areas that have been polluted in the name of "scientific" research
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 Good job.
The Russians appear to get everywhere. Up in Svalbard they mine low grade coal and you get all sorts of cr@p washed up on the beaches there......
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 Hear, hear!
But aside from all that, Mjausson, WOW! I love the new look. I simply adore it. very sexy. How do you do it? It's better than Geri Halliwell... um... hmmmm... I'll leave it at that.
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 Penguins (chinstraps) feel a bit like that velvety stuff that they put on car dasboards (very soft) they dry out in about 3 minutes.
Jon yes you are not supposed to "interfere" with the wildlife but as I was driving round them in a big yellow thing that went beep beep all the time I thought they must be quite hardy types
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Thanks Clive. There are no penguins at the petting zoo in Queens Park so I've been unable to find out for myself. :-)
Thanks Andrew. However my looks can't, by definition, be better than those of Geri Halliwell.
--Mjausson
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Ah yes old git read the WHOLE question!
Sorry Mjausson enthusiasm got the better of me!
Scrap Yes yon international scrap heap went to Montevideo where it was unloaded for recycling. I know I am an awful cynic but even I would draw the line at chucking it in the sea.
On a slightly related topic the water was so clear in Maxwell Bay (where we operated) that you could see (according to the ships echo sounder) down to about seventy feet on a calm day. Just enough to make out the bottom and the scrap that was on that....
The thing I was proud of was getting the fifty odd tons of waste oil off without spilling any!
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I have over 1500 digital phots and probably more than 20% of those feature the little black and white blighters!
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So when do we get to see them?
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 Yep we want more penguins !
Clive can you run an article on penguins only?
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 We want - Nay, we NEED more penguins!
Jon, any chance of PENGUINmagic?
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 OUTDOORSmagic, SHEEPmagic, now PENGUINmagic!
Typical of a woman, never satisfied! ;-)
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Ahem.
Want that coat back?
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I can send penguin, elephant seal and weddel seal phots. I also have digital video of a leopard seal going in to the sea.
I can send more penguin phots but they are big and I am too technically inept to reduce their quality
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Mike
As far as I could make out the penguins took sod all notice of anything over 5 meters away from them so the chances of them watching aircraft are minute. Several aircraft went into the airstrip whilst I was there and they seemed oblivious.
What really amazed me was when a Uruguayan Huey landed on our beach. The penguins in the rotor wash of this immensely noisy beasty ignored it. so I reckon they are highly unlikely to topple.
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