Suellen, Author at Bucket List Publications

In the Path of the Furious Fifties: Macquarie Island

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Suellen | 1 Comments

A Story of Loss and Learning in the Sub-Antarctic that takes us from commercial exploitation to recognition; from carnage to care-taking. Macquarie Island, Overlooking Sandy Bay I’m guessing many of you had never heard of Macquarie Island (AKA Macca) before I started raving about it, (Parade of the Penguins, and Southern Elephant Seals: Giant Slugs of the Sea? Or Just a…

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Eating Reindeer Meat in Helsinki

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Suellen | 4 Comments

Newsweek magazine has named Finland the best country in the world, and I have to say, I’m not surprised. I’m neither an historian nor a geographer, so I’m not going to try to give you a short course on Helsinki. Or Finland, for that matter. I can only tell you about the little bit that I saw and learned while there for a…

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Southern Elephant Seals: Giant Slugs of the Sea? Or Just a Lot of Blubber?

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Suellen | 5 Comments

Everywhere I looked elephant seals were piled up like heaps of exhausted Sumo wrestlers. Sometimes it was easy to overlook them–mistaking them for sand hills. The penguins must have thought so too, as they paraded amongst them willy-nilly. Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals mostly ignore each other on land The seals are not a threat to the penguins on land,…

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Macquarie Island–A Parade of Penguins

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Suellen | 6 Comments

Macquarie Island, in the Sub-Antarctic, was the main destination of this Orion Expedition Cruise. Macquarie Island, or Macca, as the Expedition Team liked to call it, was amazing. We were fortunate enough to spend a full day touring Macquarie Island. The morning was spent touring around the research station and its environs, meeting the locals–predominantly gentoo penguins and elephant seals. After a…

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