After a quite exhausting day yesterday 😉 with hiking bathing and sauna today we could sleep in today, as with grey weather we entered and sailed into the Antarctic Sound (named after the expedition ship Antarctic). Around noon everyone was on the bridge and we always went out and back in again (freezing!) to take photos or simply stare at the amazingly blue, white, crystal, large and small icebergs and growlers, that swam around us and that we sailed along. On some flows there were lazy fur seals. Than a huge tabular iceberg, approx. 35 meters high, that means approx. 250 meters under water towards the ocean ground… Lunch with iceberg panorama, guests were happy, what a scenery, constant “oh, look, there…”, “that one!”, quickly leaving the lunch table for just another photograph from the bar deck.
In the afternoon then landing on Devil Island, in the Weddell Sea. We encountered some fur seals that were easily to be missed, as well as Adelie penguins, with their black head and the bright blue button-eyes. The chicks looked the cutest, with their greyish feathers, some with a kind of hip style fluffy feather hat on, while waiting for their adult feathers, to then be able to get into the sea and swim off.
We hiked up the steep mountain to the top and this time it was more exhausting than yesterday. But the view from the top then was just amazing. A 360° Antarctica panorama from 220m height is unbeatable. Surrounded by bright blue icebergs, snowcapped black mountains, glaciers everywhere around us.
