An overview of the trip is available
here.
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| Gloomy Lemaire Channel Transit with a Humpback Whale Blowing (Lower Right) |
In the morning we arrived off Renard Island to do a landing. This was cancelled because of ice blocking the approach. We then transited the Lemaire Channel southbound in intermittent fog, low overcast and drizzle. This was an amazing place that I was looking forward to seeing, but sadly it was shrouded in clouds. I stood on deck in cold drizzle. I underdressed; my shoes, pants, and gloves got soaked. Even with the clouds and fog, I didn’t want to run back to my cabin to get better clothing because I was afraid I’d miss something great. I shot a few landscapes, but ended up rejecting all of them. I did enjoy watching a group of three Humpback Whales that stayed with the ship during the transit, surfacing as a group.
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| Two Humpback Whales, Scars Visible on Left Whale's Back |
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| Humpback Whale Trio |
The Lemaire Channel transit was all too brief and unsatisfying in the poor weather. We spent the rest of the day off Petermann Island. Initially we were to make a landing, but there was too much brash ice clustered at the landing site, so we had a zodiac cruise under overcast skies and intermittent drizzle. There we visited a Gentoo Penguin colony and saw the only 2 other ships of the whole peninsula cruise.
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| Gentoo Penguins |
There were a few Adélie Penguins mixed in with the Gentoos.
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| Adélie Penguin |
A Chilean icebreaker passed by while we were out on the water, a rare sighting of another ship.
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| Icebreaker |
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| Intended Landing Site on Petermann Island |
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