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Guess what - dense fog during the night has delayed us considerably, such that we are certainly not going to make one of our landings today (Culverville Island). Instead the ship ploughs on and we get an unscheduled lecture on seals. During the lecture some humpbacks are sighted, and the prospect of some activity versus another half hour of lecture wins hands down. The humpbacks in question are, in fact, at least four of them and they play around the boat for about an hour, providing us with great amusement - everyone forgetting that we've already lost a lot of time today, and this isn't helping the cause.
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After lunch we passed through the Gerlache Straits on our way to Neko Harbour which provided some nice views of Leopard Seals basking on bits of Ice.
Leopard seal
Neko Harbour
The harbour is full of ice - it is likely that the glacier that dominates one side of the harbour calved causing the harbour to fill with all these small pieces. The glacier calved a couple of time whilst we were there - nothing major but the loud cracking was impressive, none the less.
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Here we walked up the hill to view the glacier from on high and have a view into the bay - a bit of a waste of precious time, really - there was no added value to doing this, it only cut down the time we could spend watching the Gentoo penguins go about their business, and watch them busying themselves in the nearby rookery. We also had some quality time with the icebergs that were washed up or close to the shore.
Dorian Bay
An early dinner put us all in the mood for the evening landing at Dorian Bay. Here there was:
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The snow was the deepest we had encountered with wellies sinking 12 inches or so, if we stood in the wrong place.
Last zodiac back at 9.45pm, when we were greeted on board with hot soup and a cuppa.
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