Still crossing the Drake Passage. Iceberg watch is on. Mr. Chen won the bottle of champagne for finding it right before our first land, Smith Island of the South Shetland Islands.
Then, we sailed between very snowy Smith Island and I believe, Low Island.
Our iceberg was a really special and huge one. The Captain made a circumnavigation of our first iceberg, so everyone could be sure to get lots of photos. See for yourself! It was so huge and such an interesting, complicated and beautiful shape that Clay took loads of fantastic photos.
We had dinner tonight with some people who were one deck higher, on 4 and they had their door blown open the first night of the crossing and got sea water in their cabin. They had also been on the first flight so they were very sleep deprived in addition to sea sick. We have been pretty lucky. Here's hoping we get that promised Drake Lake on the way back. One of the lecturers said this was his 8th crossing and his 3rd roughest. It was rough by any standard, though the Captain is quick to remind us it could have been worse. Not knowing that Clay had shot a video of the Drake Passage yesterday, I made one today. I have to apologize now for having no sound on any of my videos, since it is an old camera, we haven’t worried about why it did not record sound.
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