Having left the Falklands we are now enroute to South Georgia with another 2 days at sea. Unusually we saw a massive 5 mile long tabular iceberg (today's picture) which had travelled from the Weddell Sea; it was a surprise to the team who had not seen it before and an amazing sight.
The day was filled with lectures on: krill, the reason all the animals are here - it forms a biomass of 500million tonnes (twice that of humans) with most eaten by whales, penguins, seals,squid and fish, with some being harvested for human supplements, aquarium food and sport fishing bait; seals - the eared seals who use fur to keep warm and the true seals, like the elephant seals who use blubber to keep warm; plants- the number reduces as we go south but a few do live in Antarctica and beneath Antartica there are prehistoric fossils of ferns depicting this land mass was once in warmer climes; and finally a lecture on the 7 penguin types we will see on our voyage - King, Magellanic, Gentoo, Rock hopper, Macaroni, Chinstrap and Adelie- there is also a chance we might see Emperor penguins as they breed in the winter and are far inland but at this time of year they are feeding so we might be lucky.
Before dinner I had a massage - I treated myself to a package of a facial and two massages which I spaced out as treats on sea days across the trip.
Throughout the day we saw antarctic prions, royal albatrosses and an occasional wandering albatross following the ship.