CRUISING ANTARCTIC WATERS DAY 3
We were ready to roll for another day of cruising through these Antarctic waterways. The ships commentary came on at 6:30 this morning, informing us about the scenery and wildlife. This morning we were greeted to some light rain outside and 1 C deg. There were low clouds, that prevented us from seeing the upper parts of the mountains. Througout the morning we seen quite a few humpback whales. The whales were easy to spot due to the mirror like sea’s. At one point we seen a enormous group of tiny chinstraps Penguin’s go by the ship. Interesting thing was, we didn’t see any killer whales all morning. for the later part of the afternoon we crossed a large section of open water to Deception Island. As soon as we hit open water the wave size increased dramatically. During the afternoon there were several lectures in the theatre about the Antarctic environment. Every afternoon at 4:30 during the Antarctic cruising the antarctic informative team is available for Q & A’s. After an early dinner we pulled up to Deception Island. This Island used to be an old vulcano, and all what was left of the volcano was a large bowl. We couldn’t quite look inside the bowl. There is a large Chinstraps Penguin colony located on the island. The captain rotated the ship for the next 1/2 hr to give the passengers an opportunity to look at the colony with their binoculars. After this penguin event, we set sail for the open waters for the night. We retreated for our cabin shortly after and watched the penguin movie on our TV, accompanied by a cocktail of some sort.
Today we cruided following waters: Gerlache Strait, Bransfield Strait, Antartic Sound.
Cheers
“South America” “Antarctica” “Cruising”
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