Scotia Straight - Jan 29, 2020

From the Falklands we head due south, we are past the tip of South America or past Drake Passage and at at the time of writing, we are into the Scotia Straight on our way to the Antarctic Peninsula. The ship is certainly rocking but not as bad as it could be, I would say we are in about 20 foot swells. Fun fact - the waters from the Pacific round and go through the area between South America and Antartica, kind of like a funnel and if there is some major wind from a storm or otherwise the seas can get really rough. There is also the Southern Ocean that circulates around the Antarctic, cold water from the Antarctic that also circulates in a clockwise direction. We are anticipating some fog as these two bodies of waters converge, once we are through that we will be in the Southern Ocean, sometime in the middle of the night. They are calling for some decent weather tomorrow, yeah, as we sail into Admiralty Bay on the Shetland Islands, from here we will be cruising in the Bransfield Strait on our way to Deception Island - this is the island where we will be crashing the Penguin Party, lol. Should be an awesome day, an early day but an awesome day.

It was very nice to be welcomed in these waters by some whales and some Albatross. Funny, I went to go for my deck walk and saw a guy with his camera, there were two whales he was taking pictures of. I ran downstairs grabbed my camera and took a quick shot out the window to get the last one before they disappeared. I did my forty minute walk with only seeing a few whales way off in the distance, looking forward to seeing these amazing animals once again.

We had, The Heroic Age Of Exploration Commemorative Dinner tonight in the main Dining Room, very nice job done by the dining staff here. Tonight’s entertainment was an excellent Spanish Flamingo guitar player, Adam Westcott. A few pics of today, hope you enjoy… 

Quote of the day - “Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win”. - Bernadette Devlin