In the morning, we stopped at Cierva Cove, near the Argentine Primavera base. The base is on an island rich with lichens, so no landing, just a zodiac tour, as they want to protect these slow growing organisms.

In the afternoon, we stopped at Port Lockroy, which is a restored British Antarctic station just around the corner from Damoy Point run by the British Antarctic Trust. They have a museum and a shop. They have five employees here to run the museum, shop and post office. You can mail a postcard from here. It goes to another station and out from there.

We sailed outside Biscoe Island to the Neumayer Channel overnight. We stopped at Damoy Point on the west side of Wiencke Island in the morning.

We sailed inside Lavoisier Island up to the continent near Prospect Point in Crystal Sound overnight. As we got near in the morning during breakfast there were many distractions, passing penguins and seals resting on the sea ice.

We saw some humpback whales this morning after breakfast. This day has a very loose plan, get south of the Antarctic Circle, and see what we can do.

This morning we had a zodiac tour of Pleneau Bay, which traps icebergs that drift in, since it is shallow. We saw lots of blue ice, some crab eater seals and some Gentoo penguins.

Today was spent in the Gerlache Strait. In the morning we landed at Cuverville Island and saw a Gentoo penguin colony.

The forecast for the Drake passage wasn’t looking all that great. We were attempting to go between two storms, with four meter seas in the forecast. The ship has stabilizers that help with rolling, but not much with pitch.

Yesterday we left Buenos Aires early in the morning and flew to Ushuaia. We arrived for a late lunch on our own. Then to the hotel on the outskirts of town for checking in. A little free time, then a bus ride back to town for supper on our own and some shopping if you wanted to.

We arrived in Buenos Aires in the late morning after an overnight flight. After a ride to the hotel in the city center, we had some free time to walk around by the Obelisk. It was warm and humid, so we made a stop at a gelato shop.