In the morning, we stopped at Hannah Point, on Livingston Island in the Shetland Islands. It was originally planned to be an early landing as the wind was supposed to pick up by mid-morning. That didn’t happen, and another ship canceled their afternoon visit, so we ended up spending a gorgeous day there.

In the afternoon, we stopped at Mikkelson Harbor, which was an old whaling landing. There are a number of whale bones left there.

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.