Pebble Island to Sea Lion Island, Falklands

4 - 5 March 2006

Elephant seals and more penguins

Sea Lion Island, in the far south of the Falklands, is much smaller than Pebble Island so we were able to cover most of it on foot in the two days. The first day we walked to the east end of the island and saw elephant seals, gentoo and magellanic penguins, sea lions, magellanic oyster catchers, curious striated caracara and the ubiquitous geese and ducks.

The second day, the weather was more typical of the Falklands, i.e. windy and none too warm. However, we heroically forsook a hot roast lunch and took a pack lunch with us to the west end of the island where we saw rock shags, imperial shags, cormorants, dolphin gulls, rockhopper and magellanic penguins and kelp geese as well as more elephant seals.