Today we got to rest and learn. It was a sea day so no excursions. Instead we had a number of presentations and got to watch the albatross and birds flying on the open ocean. It’s 300 nautical miles to our next stop- Macquarie Island.
Random info from presentations:
- Frigate birds can fly for months without landing- they napp in the air and can shut down half their brain at a time
- King penguins can dive 500+ meters deep and they can hold their breath for 20+ minutes
- One penguin can turn off it’s stomach processing so it can bring back unprocessed food for their chicks
- Today we past south into Australian territory
- 2-3 million penguins were boiled/killed and rendered into oil between 1810 and 1918. 2000 penguins a day could be ‘processed’ and with better equipment up to 3500 per day could be processed