To busy to blog

I know you've all been waiting breathlessly for the next blog update but we
have been flat out! When we're not looking at seals and penguins and
icebergs and growlers and bergy bits (technical Antarctic term for bits of
ice smaller than a growler and bigger than brash) and brash which is the
stuff that is chunks of ice floating around we are either eating, sleeping
only occasionally, putting on copious layers of clothing to go zodiaking, or
taking off copious layers of clothing when we come back from shore.

Yesterday we started off with sunshine on fabulous scenery in the Lemaire
Channel. Otherwise once know as Kodak Alley but now renamed as Pixel Pass.
Then we had three expeditions ashore for penguins and seals, vodka (yes the
Ukrainian base has a bar) and an evening trip via a penguin colony for a
zodiak cruise to view icegergs. Then I couldn't go to bed because we cruised
back through the Lemaire Channel as the not setting sun tipped the mountains
a soft gentle pink. A perfect evening, brandy in hand.

This morning another cruise to more spectacular icebergs and several seals
on floes and a last step onto mainland Antarctica before we head off again
for on last stop before we hit the Drake passage for the voyage home.

We've had everything weather wise except stormy weather fortunately. Sun,
snow, rain, breeze, perfect stillness.

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