Daryl Peveto

TRAVEL

The White Continent
   
A colony of chinstrap penguins, numbering somewhere around 80,000 at Baliey Head on Deception Island. Scientists have been keeping track of the penguins since the 1950's.
  
A lone chistrap penguin greets visitors to Deception Island.
     
  
National Geographic Endevour breaks into the fast ice near Neny Fjord on Marguerite Bay.
   
  
The White Continent
     
  
   
Framed between two trees, the lost city of Machu Picchu from Patallacta Hill on Puncuyoc Mountain.
  
     
  
In the local market at Chinchero, a woman sells coca leaves. The leaves, locally known as coca, or mate de coca for tea, are chewed or steeped as tea which helps aid digestion and altitude sickness.
   
A view from the Royal Palace at Machu Picchu of a lone tree that grew from a branch left in 1975 as part of ceremony service. The tree began to take root almost immediately, and after three weeks when it was to be removed, the caretakers of the sanctuary decided to let it remain.
  
An arrow points to the bay of the former resort town North Shore, California, on the Salton Sea, once known as the "Glamour Capital of the Salton Sea."
     
  
A pair of trees hold several nests in the Sonny Bono National Wildlife Refuge. The area is home to one quarter of all North American bird species.