Up and out in time to hear the beginning of the commentary just after 8 am, pretty much at the time when we were ice blocked from entering the Lemaire Channel, we were at 65.01 degrees south - the furthest south this adventure takes us. To commemorate this they dropped a tender to take some pictures of the ship as it was positioned in front of the Mainland of Antartica, I was on deck with only a handful of other guests, perhaps I will be in the photo? They were not going assemble all guests as the it was about 8:30 and the cold wind was howling at about 35 knots. All in all the weather was great today as we cruised around through the Errera Channel (well we did not quite make it through as we ended up being ice locked at the turn in the channel and had to come back out - this is when the biting wind hit about 40 to 45 knots). Later in the afternoon we cruised into Charlotte Bay where there were a number of Humpback whales feeding - always great to see and to take pics of. The sun peaked out as we slowly cruised around this Bay with its number of very large Ice Bergs along with the whales. This evening it began to snow and it was very cute seeing the number of crew that came out to witness snow, many for the first time. Side note, I can really see that the captain and the expedition team are doing their very best to give us the best experience possible, this was again evidenced today with us entering the Errera Channel, I thought there was no way we were going to get in as far as we did before having to turn around. It was like an obstacle course of maneuvering around the many ice bergs and bitty bergs (ice bergs of up to one metre in height). So with this being a channel, the plan was to go out the other side, especially since an expedition ship had recently come through. Well by the time we arrived to make to turn the winds had increased to about 45 knots and the really big ice bergs made the maneuvering impossible. Now this is where the izipods come is handy, despite the wind the ship can still pretty much turn on itself without getting blown into trouble - lots of power here. So, great day and evening, looking forward to our last Antarctic day tomorrow, another early morning. Side note, internet is still almost non existent, quick short things okay, files such as this blog, not so much, will probably have to post all together once our connection is stronger. They say that once you are below 60 degrees south, satellite availability is very limited. A few pics of our day, hope you enjoy…
Quote of the day - “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” - Mikki Giovanni
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