Adelie penguin - ice-foot 10

Adelie penguin - ice-foot 10

The ice-foot is the large "step" of ice to the left of this picture. It forms through the winter when the tide rises and falls leaving a thin layer of water to freeze each time. Then the sea-ice breaks out and leaves the ice-foot behind until time and tide and wind and wave break it up. These penguins have a job to get back to their nests as the tide has gone out when they were at sea.

In the meantime, they wander back and forth following anyone who looks like he (or she) may know the way - invariably, none of them know the way at all.

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