Flashback: Simpsons Gap

Before I leave the outback—for real this time—here's one last rock formation, this one in Simpsons Gap, near Alice Springs. Never mind aliens--these rocks look like they're screaming.

Flashback: Standley Chasm

Many of the remaining pictures from the outback are landscapes of red sand with rocks and a few unhappy trees, and I think you get the idea without having to actually see them.

But I liked these pictures from Standley Chasm, near Alice Springs, because of how green and (deceptively) cool the landscape appears. You still needed a face net for the flies.

More spooky Antarctica

Mikkelsen Harbor.

Neko Harbor

Yes, I probably should finish going through and posting pictures from South Georgia before jumping to Antarctica, but honestly with hundreds of pictures still to go through and school starting again next week, I'm finding it hard to be methodical. (And not sure that there's any real need to post pictures in the order I took them, anyway.) So I saw a picture I really liked from Neko Harbor and next thing I knew I was looking for more of them.

So here's a colony of gentoos, with a nice glacier as a backdrop.