Antarctica -- October-November 2010

Cuverville Island.

This was taken from inside a Polar Cirkel boat as we approached the landing point. The metal rods are handholds to use entering and leaving the boat (almost always both done from the front of the boat).

There are parallel lines of penguins and people (the "blue penguins") on shore on the left hand side of this photo.

I was in one of the last groups of people to go to this landing. There is a line of people from earlier groups lined up to go back to the ship. Some of them are getting onto the boat nest to the shore.

There was a lot of floating ice adjacent to shore, which got worse while my group was on shore. I suspect they would not have done this landing if they had known how ice conditions would change while the landing was going on.

(27 Nov 2010)