• Remote Weddell Sea Explorer
    1Not only my favorite berg to-date, but my favorite trip photo thus far.
    Aqua-colored berg in the vicinity of Bristol Island — South Sandwich Islands.A closer look at the aqua-colored berg in the vicinity of Bristol Island — South Sandwich Islands.A closer look at the aqua-colored berg in the vicinity of Bristol Island — South Sandwich Islands.2It's more apparent in the video that this berg has rolled over and is showing its underbelly.

    RWSE Day 9: My Favorite To-Date?

    February 19, South Atlantic Ocean ⋅ 🌬 32 °F

    After our first expedition to Antarctica, we saw several photos of amazing icebergs … blue, blue-green, aqua, green. Many of them clear or translucent. The captions showed the location in each instance as the South Sandwich Islands. It was those images that put these remote islands on our must-travel-to list.

    Since arriving in the Scotia Sea around the South Sandwich Islands, we’ve seen several of the colorful bergs. But this one — which we sailed by today somewhere in the vicinity of Bristol Island — is most definitely my favorite to-date. Mui agrees with me.

    We still have a ways to go before this expedition is all said and done, and we’ll be seeing many, many more of Mother Nature’s ice sculptures. All will be beautiful, but the bar has now been raised. Will any of them be able to replace this one as my favorite? We’ll have to wait to find out.

    (I didn’t play with the color of the berg, except to add a bit of overall brightness to the photos. Nonetheless, you’ll note a difference in color when you play the video … different cameras; different zoom settings.)    Read more