We went to the Antarctica TODAY!!!!!

The rookery in Cape Royd, Antarctica!

One penguin is laying on the nest to rest!

A baby Adelie penguin only has down feathers to keep it warm.

We went to the South Pole today!!!  Well, not really but we had a Skype call from Jean Pennycook who is working at the Ross Sea in the Antarctica.  She got taken to the rookery by helicopter.  The rookery is a group of penguins that come on land to lay their eggs.  This rookery had 1800 nests!  An Adelie penguin lays 2 eggs.  Ms. Pennycook told us that only about 1/2 of the eggs survive! Sometimes the eggs get taken by the Skua bird.

Guess what the temperature was at the South Pole today!  It was 0*C or the SAME as High River!  However, yesterday there was a storm.  In fact, Ms. Pennycook had to stay in her tent for THREE days!  She said her tent is destroyed!

We saw the penguins waddling!  We heard them making weird sounds.  One of the penguins came right up to the camera to say hi to us!

Ms. Pennycook told us that there was a leopard seal in the ocean.  We know that a leopard seal is a predator of the penguin.  They will eat a penguin.  The penguins were not scared of Ms. Pennycook because she doesn't touch them as they are wild animals.  She also told us that they have no predators on the land only the Skua bird trying to eat eggs and chicks! 

In the Skype call, her voice kept breaking up that was because it was very windy there.  It was pretty sunny there.  There is NO grass or trees there.  The penguins have to use pebbles to make a nest for their eggs.

As soon as the babies get their waterproof feathers, the penguins will swim 500 miles away for the winter.  In the South Pole it is summer.

We liked having a Skype call. Thanks for calling us, Ms. Pennycook!