Antarctica -- October-November 2010

Somewhere in the region of the Cockburn Channel and Strait of Magellan.

Wish I had spend some effort cropping this one a bit. If you look closely at the shoreline (past the bow of the ship), you will see it is slanting upward, slightly toward the left. Thus the ship is heeled over to the left even more that is appears to be in this photo.

Don't recall exactly what was going on here. I THINK we were had a steady high wind coming from the right (the photographer's right), causing the ship to heel over, somewhat like a sailboat. However, it could be that some kind of rocking motion was going on, or (possibly) we could have been turning.

(Probably 20 Nov 2010)

In Chilean fiords (or fjords) on the way to Punto Arenas Chile

This is looking out toward the front (bow or prow) of the ship. The squarish thing just to left of center of this photo is the ship’s spare anchor (and the restraining device it lives in).

If you look closely at the angle between the horizon and the deck, you can see the ship was rockin’ pretty good when this photo was taken (and this was mild compared to sea conditions in the Drake Passage a few days later).