got pecked by a very fluffy chick, it is an incredible feeling standing and looking down at your legs and watching a little chick giving you a good pecking! Its hard to know what to do really but we just stood there and took it and it soon got bored with us and headed off in search of some more fun!

It was a very warm day and some of the penguins and chicks looked to be suffering in the unusually high temperatures. Oh how these poor little fellows are going to suffer with the phenomenon that is global warming. I know that the world is heating itself up slowly but I don’t quite think Antarctica is ready for the extra burden that humans are putting on this planet and escalating the warming process. The Antarctic peninsula is the fastest warming place on earth and it is criminal to think how much this is going to affect this wildlife wonderland. It really does sadden me to think how much this

place is going to change and once it does then that’s it - the point of no return, it will affect everything on earth.

I guess the highlight of the visit to Port Lockroy was seeing a King Penguin. Apparently it was a juvenile King Penguin and it was two thousand miles off course! Normally they are never seen on the Antarctic peninsula but with the luck we’d had so far it didn’t surprise Troels at all! It seemed huge after all of the little Gentoo’s and apparently the Gentoo’s were none to pleased when it turned up unannounced and the poor King Penguin was not only hundreds of miles off course but had to deal with a far few scuffles with the unimpressed Gentoo’s! Penguins really are the most fascinating things to observe, it doesn’t matter how many you see your time with them is never long enough.
After we had finished with all