We are further along into the Drake now. Yesterday after lunch we had a lecture on photography in Antarctica and some of the challenges with lighting and exposure due to all the white snow and ice. After the lecture I headed out into the wind (still 50+ knots) on the back deck. Just before heading back inside, an announcement came over the PA saying we had some hourglass dolphins playing in our wake on the starboard side. They looked like they were just having fun in the wake, but with all the wind and waves, they weren’t getting too far out of the water. Although I did manage to get one good frame from video.
They are called hourglass dolphins due to the black and white colouring on their sides making an hourglass shape. We were supposed to have our zodiac briefing in the afternoon but there were still many people that didn’t have their “sea legs” (read were seasick), so it was postponed. In it’s place they showed an episode of BBC’s Frozen Planet (which I finished watching in it’s entirety before the trip) so it allowed time to read and take a nap. Our little triple birth works pretty well for only being 15 square metres.
And since we are on the 2nd deck (lowest aside from the engine) we have a pretty good wave height view from our porthole.
In the late afternoon we had a lecture from the ship’s bird expert on penguins. It was a good description of the different types with their identifying features and which ones we may be able to see. After that it was back on the back deck where the sun was trying to break out and the wind and waves had eased up a little.
And checking out all the wandering albatrosses cruising around and behind the ship.
We had dinner and then they played the movie Master and Commander in the lounge prior to bedtime. It was a pretty good first full day aboard.
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