Day 16

Trip Start Oct 09, 2008
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Trip End Nov 28, 2008


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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Day 16, Tues 19 Nov: Lemaire Channel:  "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." T.S.Eliot.
Our wake up call was 5.30am, the sun didn't even bother going to bed last night (nor the night previous) and not sure why we did after a rather late night.  It was worth being on deck to see the Lemaire Channel, stunning glaciers and glacier carved cliffs, with the ship dodging the smallish icebergs.
 
We had a pre-breakfast landing at Petermann Island, a mile long island covered in those  omnipresent Gentoos and also Adelies.  Adelies are little cuties with black hoods including a feathery nose (feathers to about half way down it's beak).
 
We seem to have been the 'Chosen Ones' of the Weather Gods, on the whole the weather has really varied only between ok-spectacular.  Only a couple of activities were cancelled including the post-brekky zodiac cruise planned for later in the morning.
 
The afternoon held a Climate Change lecture.  Gary, a retired Geologist/Glaciologist is one of the most amazing speaker I've ever listened to.  No concepts are too difficult to understand when he presents, truly a very rare gift.
 
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