Galerie - Kuli South Georgia Expedition

Kuli South Georgia Expedition

Stained Glass in Christ Church Cathedral, Stanley

Land's Edge in West Falkland

The Falkland Islands Company, which once owned nearly all the land on the islands.

Christ Church Cathedral, the world's southernmost Anglican church (built in 1892)

Men at the wheel on the Pelagic Australis

Port of Stanley - Container Row

Alex Kuli Sr. says goodbye to the Falklands

The Pelagic Australis crew setting sail for South Georgia

Possession Bay Glacier

Alex Sr. in Possession Bay

Possession Bay Entrance

Sunshine at Last

South Georgia Coast

Blue Island

Possession Bay discussion

Sunset at King Edward Point

Thrashing About in the South Atlantic

Crosses at King Edward Point

Cross erected by Shackleton's team, King Edward Point

Dusk at Grytviken

Sarah and Pat Lurcock, who have lived on South Georgia for 20 years

Government Officer Pat Lurcock helps the Pelagic cast off

Alex Sr. and skipper Magnus Day

Pelagic leaves a trail

Birdprints

Whale processing factory

Taking Stock

View from the Grytviken factory floor

Whale Oil Tanks

I can fly!

King Penguins

View from Grytviken church porch

Ghost of Masts Past

Shackleton's grave

Grytviken coast road

My tussock grass home

Who, me?

Mountain over the British Antartic Survey complex

Sex on the Beach

Fur seals at play

Singing Seal

Seal Chorus

Yo! Dude with the camera! Back off!

Yawn

Still singing

Seal Family

Grytviken ice floe

Whale Harpoon Gun

The Petrel

Pelagic crew taking in the sights

Where Old Boats Go To Die

Death of a Lifeboat

Alex and Alex landing at Barff Peninsula

Thank God for muck boots

L'Auberge de Barff: Choice accommodation for Bjorn, Mario and Marcello.

The Boys of Barff in their Cozy Cabin

Giant Petrels hanging out

Newborn elephant seal crushed to death by an alpha male trying to mate with his mother

Bonanza for Birds

Hungry Pup

Oops! 'Scuse me!

South Georgia Post Office

The joys of motherhood

Newborn elephant seal pup at King Edward Point

South Georgia Jail - Drunk tank for whalers

Pelagic at Port in Grytviken

Greater Grytviken. The museum is at lower right.

Mario negotiates the stream on Barff

Hiking to Szielsko

Bjorn calling

Bjorn and Mario take a romantic stroll

Bird over Barff Peninsula

Norwegian Lutheran Church at Grytviken, built in 1913. The pastor, Kristen Loken, left in 1931, complaining that the whalers' religious lives "left much to be desired."

Pulpit

Preacher's-eye view

Gino the radar man works his magic

Gino the radar man on the Szielsko glacier

Ice floes off Nordenskjold

Natural ice sculpture

Nordenskjold ice cave

Nordenskjold ice floe

The team returns from Nordenskjold

Cumberland Bay sunset

Sunset from Barff Peninsula

Edd, the second mate, ferries Gino back to the Pelagic.

Fortuna fur seal

It's freakin' cold out here!

Waddling around

Playing in the snow

Tussock Commune

Reindeer row

"Dangerous" Dan Dixon wields his ice pick

Getting to the core

Dan drilling in Shackleton's ice

The fruits of his labor

Dan's ice hole

King Penguin goes it alone

Reindeer hanging out

Fortuna Reindeer

Grazing

Fortuna Penguins

Camera shy

Penguin parade

...and then the other day, I caught a fish thiiiiissssss big.

Fortuna gentoos

Fortuna Bay entrance

Learning to waddle.

Checking out the intruders.

My money's all over the fur seal in this fight.

Shy Fortuna fur seal

Penguin Conga line

Me an' mah girl.

Gentoo and gentoo-to-be.

Nests are best

Neighbors

Shags on the rocks

A couple of good shags

Whaler's pinup girl: Pamela Anderson of 1915, before the miracle of the airbrush had been invented (museum display)

Whaler humor (museum display)

Replica of the James Caird, the lifeboat in which Shackleton sailed to South Georgia (Grytviken museum)

Cogs in the Whale Wheel

Penguin Yoga

Penguins on the March

Proud Papa and his brood

Maternity Ward

Gutted

Penguins and elephant seals shrug off the wind in the Bay of Isles

More penguins in the Bay of Isles

Bay of Isles - Wind-whipped penguins

Bay of Isles Penguin Colony

Sunset over the Southern Ocean

The Falklander's Bible

Victory Bar

Memorial to the 258 British subjects killed in the Falklands conflict

Monument to the Battle of the Falkland Islands, where the British defeated a German naval vessel in 1914.

Falklands Geese

Peace: Victory over the Germans in 1914

Just Say No! You never know when the temptation to start whaling again might strike.

Thatcher Gate at the Governor's House

Alex Sr. and horses

Falkland horses

Whale harpoon gun. The skeletons were reconstructed from real whale bones by an old Falklander mechanic who has devoted his yard to the anti-whaling campaign.