Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Antarctic Peninsula

elephant_islandMiddle of the night (4:30 a.m.): Elephant Island – the first island belonging to Antarctica. The wind slowed for an hour, then blew up to again to 55 to 65 mph wind resulting in 6 to 8 m waves. More people missed breakfast – actually, I don’t think they really missed it – they just didn’t show up.

As promised by the captain, we made it into the Arctic Sound after lunch. What a beautiful and peaceful bay with all the trimmings: icebergs, penguins, whales, sea-lions, and albatrosses. More about this from Bettina’s desk tomorrow.

For Ricardo: Man, it is cold down here.

Well, at least the penguins enjoy it:

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