Sea Lion Island, the Falkland Islands
Look out the windows of the Lodge on Sea Lion Island and the Gentoo penguin colony is so close you can almost touch it. Everything on Sea Lion is close — it is one of the smallest and most compact islands in the archipelago but it has the richest diversity of wildlife including 6,000 Gentoo Penguins, 1,000 rockhoppers, Magellanic penguins, elephant seals, dolphins, orcas, geese, gulls, skuas and over 40 species of breeding birds. It is an extremely rewarding…