Deep South Adventures, day 9
The morning looked good from our balcony.
They rotate who goes first, so we needed to have a fairly early breakfast. You can tell my wife did not mind.
We did watch the very first group before we got ready,.
And, there is always a wait after we’re dressed before they actually call our number.
But, then down to the place you load the boats.
And, away we go. A bit rough when we got out there. But, not so rough there wasn’t a boat handing out champagne and chocolate…
We cruised around for a while, but didn’t land anywhere. It was fairly rough and the waves did come into the boat.
There was a lot of drying clothes before the afternoon session.
It gave a good use for the eye stalks.
We did check the records of what’s been seen. Lots of penguins. But few whales and no toothed whales.
The sail to the next area was very scenic. I did go up on deck at one point to get photos from both sides, and the wind was so strong in the front I had to stand at a 15 degree angle to stay in place. That’s a strong wind. You can tell by the clouds it was even stronger up high.
We went through a fair narrow channel and it was very cool.
I guess the guys who work on the ship consider this shirt sleeve weather…
Then, time to go ashore again.
It was to a base our expedition leader had worked at a few decades ago.
Just as glad we have a nice cabin on the ship.
There was at least one avalanche on a mountain near by. We all heard it, but like lightning, by the time you hear it, it is over. So, I never figured out where it had been.
It’s hard to see how narrow the trail was, but if you went off it, you sank quite deep into the snow. Then, someone had to come along and fill in the hole so a penguin wouldn’t fall in and get trapped.
The penguins didn’t seem to want us to go and were swimming between us and the zodiac home.
But, we got on around them.
We got back to the ship to find a message saying “we moved your dinner reservations forward”, so ran off to the restaurant quickly.
As we watch another ship came around the passage and sent other zodiacs to shore.
Now we’re on the way north again. We’ll stop at the Shetland islands again tomorrow and go ashore two more times if the weather works out.
