A trip overview can be found here. This post describes one day of a cruise.
Overnight we left the relatively calm waters along the peninsula and entered the ocean. The ship was back to pitching and rolling all night. In the morning, we reached Detaille Island, having crossed the Antarctic Circle. This is a bleak landscape of rocks, ice, penguins, and cormorants. We had a zodiac cruise around the island, observing penguins and cormorants.
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| Detaille Island |
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| Antarctica Cormorants and Adélie Penguins |
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| Adélie Penguins |
In the afternoon, we repositioned to Hanusse Bay for a zodiac cruise. There the highlight was the many whales that were feeding all around us.
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| Humpback Whales |
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| Humpback Whales and Mist from Exhaled Breath |
Detaille Island and Hanusse Bay were the southernmost points on our trip.
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| Hanusse Bay |
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| Hanusse Bay |
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