(Today's photo proves Adelie penguins do fly!) We woke to find on the in room TV map that we were not far from Ushuaia and moving quite slowly as we cannot dock until 6pm. After morning tea was delivered and drunk I headed off to the gym for a pre breakfast workout.....the sun streamed in through the window making it quite hot! At breakfast we witnessed a strange phenomena, hail on one side of the ship and sun on the other eventually the small storm moved acro...

(Today's photo is from Neko Harbour as promised on 4/1/15) Thankfully the day dawned with much lighter seas and stayed relatively calm all day. It must have been good as I ventured to the gym before breakfast and John packed one of our bags. We watched Svens lecture on Antarctic explorers on television but went to Toby's excellent lecture on plants that changed the world. After lunch we watched Happy Feet 2 on television then after tea and Trivia went to listen...

I woke at 4am ish and was aware that the seas enroute to Deception island were now lumpier and they became increasingly so as we pushed into the wind. We had our usual 6.15 am tea but sat at the table as we didn't trust ourselves in bed to keep the tea in the cup - this proved a good move. Tea drunk we headed back to bed, as the safest place, and watched the waves pass the cabin window. I felt a tad queasy and had to rush to the bathroom emerging 10 minutes late...

As we had anchored off Port Lockroy overnight the landings started at 0730 but we were in the last group to go ashore at 0945 as they only take a maximum of 35 at anytime. So I had a leisurely morning going to the gym and then to breakfast before we disembarked. Port Lockroy is a natural harbour and was initially used by whalers before the British established base A on Goudier Island - the earliest example of a British Scientific Research Station on the Antarcti...

I woke early and opened the curtains to a grey day and sat in bed and watched as we passed the snow covered land mass, with an occasional grey peak or ridge sticking through; the cloud line was just above giving it a closed in feeling. As we continued to cruise down the strait, in calm seas, to our next destination we still had to dodge the obligatory small and large icebergs. Interestingly the mountains do not seem that high it's as if you have the tops with...