00:00Verse six
01:03Okay, so hello my friends, from Volunteer Point, which is a spot, is a beautiful beach, about
01:14two hours drive out of Stanley, one of which is very, very off-road, a very boggy run out
01:26this morning after all the rain we've had in the last week.
01:32At this location there is a colony of king penguins and gentous as well as lots of Magellanics
01:41as well.
01:41Ooh, giant petrel just flew past, incredible birds.
01:46Yeah, so fantastic spot, there's not much going on on the beach.
01:51Ooh, there's a gent who just come out the water.
01:57Just coming up the beach now.
02:05Let's get a quick shot of him, sorry.
02:20Yeah, so what was I saying, there's not much happening on the beach at the moment.
02:24Most of the penguins are up at the colony where there's lots of chicks, some very, very big
02:30ones, king penguins, really real tubsters and quite furry as well, though a few of them are
02:37shedding quite a lot now as well, getting rid of their baby plumage.
02:43I was here about ten days ago, I guess, when we were between islands, we flew from one of
02:50the islands, we flew back to Stanley for a night and on that afternoon we came out here
02:55but the weather was absolutely appalling so we didn't really get much footage.
03:01I'll show you some of that, I'll probably cut some of that in anyway with what I get today.
03:06So, we've come back today, this afternoon on the final day of our trip here.
03:12Tomorrow we fly back, or start our journey back I should say.
03:16Tomorrow we fly back to Santiago and then that's Saturday and then Monday flying back to Europe.
03:25So this is the last afternoon of photography in the Falklands and it is an absolutely stunning
03:34location.
03:34We had rain earlier and look, some threatening clouds over that way and more threatening clouds
03:41that way.
03:43So we'll see how long this sunshine lasts and hopefully we might get a couple of shots.
03:51Like I said, there's not much on the beach at the moment, there's a few odd penguins coming
03:55in and out of the water but no groups.
03:58What I wanted to try and do is see if I can get any swimming in and catch them porpoising
04:04in the breaking waves.
04:08That's unlikely to happen by the looks of things.
04:11So I might just end up back at the colony filming the chicks.
04:16We'll see.
04:18Anywho, that's the lay of the land at the moment.
04:22So I'll catch up with you in a little while, hopefully with some king penguins in shot.
04:28So I shall see you in a sec.
04:31So a little bit of excitement, there's a sea lion out in the water.
04:40I've just been trying to get some shots of him, if I can find him again, because he keeps,
04:48there he is, keeps on disappearing on me.
05:09Are you going to come ashore?
05:11Looks like he's taking a peek at me, I think, to see who I am, what I am.
05:20Hopefully, not thinking to himself, am I worth eating?
05:25Thank you so much.
05:25Thank you very much.
05:26Thanks a lot.
05:39Thanks a lot.
06:11He's going back out again now.
06:16There he is.
06:35He's parallel with me now.
06:38Although he's under the water.
06:39There he is.
06:40Up again.
06:45I hope he's not coming to me is all I can say.
06:50Because I'm going to have to run for it if he is.
07:17This wind isn't helping me.
07:22Okay, so he's gone back down again.
07:28There's apparently, this isn't him because this is not a big bull male, but there's apparently
07:37a bull male that has been terrorizing the king penguins here and has been taking six or seven
08:00of them apparently a day.
08:02He's absolutely decimating the colony here.
08:07But this isn't him.
08:09So obviously that bull is a very dangerous animal.
08:13This chap though is not a big bull.
08:20I've lost him.
08:22I've lost him now.
08:24Eyes in the surf.
08:52But he is probably prowling for penguins.
08:55Okay.
09:03I think they are the primary predators of the little penguins here.
09:10Even the big penguins, the kings.
09:21I've lost him again.
09:25There he is.
09:32It doesn't take much to lose him behind the waves.
09:38And I've lost him again.
09:43There's a giant petrol.
10:01What is that?
10:07I know those are ducks there.
10:10He's still there, the sea lion.
10:17Okay.
10:20I'm going to hang on here with him for a while and see if any penguins come along as well.
10:27I shall catch you in a sec.
10:33So I'm heading off the beach to the nesting colonies of the kings and the gentoos.
10:45I only managed to get a couple of distant shots in the end of the kings.
10:50There wasn't any about really.
10:53And I think with the sea lion in the water patrolling, they're unlikely to be down any time soon.
11:00And I've only got an hour left here before we have to head back to the town.
11:07So I thought I'd head up to the colony and see if I can get some shots there of the
11:12chicks.
11:12Okay, so I'm at the king penguin colony, which you can see behind me here.
11:22And hopefully you can see these chaps here.
11:27You've got some real furry ones, youngsters.
11:30There are some that are halfway through losing their down.
11:34And then the adults.
11:37And they're just so cool.
11:38Let me see if I can get you closer with this camera.
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12:13I'm going to see you next time.
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12:21Hi, my friend.
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13:22So that just about wraps up my visit here to Volunteer Point of the King Penguin Colony.
13:31I have to go catch the landy back into town.
13:36We'll be leaving in a minute.
13:41And a fantastic location here at Volunteer Point with the King Penguins.
13:47It's a shame there wasn't much more activity on the beach, but I have a feeling we need
13:51to be here quite early in the morning or stay late in the evening to get that.
13:56So that's for another time, hopefully.
14:02Yeah, so that wraps up not only this video from Volunteer Point, but also the entire series.
14:06So thanks so much for following along.
14:10I hope you've enjoyed and I shall catch you in the next one.
14:13Bye for now.
