Day 40 - Antarctic Experience (Day 4)

 We woke this morning to a 4th weather variant in 4 days- Snow. The outside decks had a dusting of snow and it snowed a little more though the morning. It was fun watching the crew members who are mostly for the Philippines and Indonesia. Many of them had not seen snow. A few of them were out on the back Sea View deck and were making snowmen and having snowball fights, We showed one of them how to make a snow angel.

We were scheduled to sail east into the Weddell Sea which is on the other side of the Antarctic Peninsula but conditions were foggy there also so the Captain changed it to go north to Elephant Island.

This island is famous for being the location where explorer Ernest Shackleton  was marooned for  4  1/2 months after sailing a lifeboat from his ship Endurance which had got caught in the iceE u=in nthe Weddell Sea in 1915.




Some snow on the deck in the morning

No sunrise to see today.


Crew members having a snowball fight

We showed this guy how to make a smow angel

2 snowmen built hereh




Just starting to see Elephant Island in the fog.

A Southern Giant Petrel


A small snowman up on thr bow


The sun trying to show 





The Captain is out and about the ship often

The Captain checking out the snowman



Penguins on an iceberg.


More penguins porpoising



The island starting to clrar a little

More penguins





A whale











They had a polar plunge











 




A South Polar Skua

The Antartica flag

A Black-browed Albatross on the water



Icdbergs ahead


Two whales



Thousands of penguins on the rocks


The bay where Shackelton spent 4 1/2 months










Shackelton stayed on these rocks




A monument to the captain of the ship that rescued Shackelton












A large iceberg


Many of the passengers assembling for a group phot0 on the bow

The Captain introduced and thanked the Navigation team for getting us through Antarctica safely



Our riute through Antarctica

No sunset again tonight.









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