We have arrived. We are sailing through the Nelson Straights and we are officially in the Antarctic. Icebergs have been visible for hours and we see more and more with each passing hour. We had a bit of adventure on the ship today. At breakfast a man stepped out through a glass door in the dining room to get a better view when the door slammed behind him and jammed shut. No one could open it and he wasn’t even wearing a jacket. With a wind chill of –8 Celsius being outside in your indoor breakfast clothes is not a great idea. The crew jumped into action and while the engineering staff was working to pry the door open, another crew member was climbing up the outside of the ship to bring him a survival suit. The rescue was pretty quick and the door was opened before the mandatory safety meeting!
Today we make our first landing! We are in boat 6 so we will have to be a little patient because that puts us in the second landing group, on the bright side it will give us plenty of time to layer up. Tomorrow we are heading for our adventure in the sound, which should be filled with tabular ice. Hopefully we will be able to get in. Our expedition leader assures us that a day spent trying to get in to the sound is more exciting than landing at one of the most toured landings on the west side. He hasn’t steered us wrong yet.
Today we will see Chinstrap penguins on Half Moon Island – it has the biggest Chinstrap rookery in the world. We should have plenty to write about tonight is words can capture what we have seen.
The wind is howling and we can barely open the doors to go outside because the wind is so strong. I cant even begin to describe how beautiful it looks, giant walls of ice, simply breathtaking.
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