Neko Harbour (late PM)

After the Brown's Station landing had been cancelled earlier this afternoon, we would have liked to have gone on to Neko Harbour straight away. Unfortunately we couldn't go in any earlier because the site had been booked to the other ship. Ships book landing sites as soon as slots are open for the summer.

So we did a very, snail's pace sailing, through Canal Agire, and ended up near the entrance of Andvord bay where we waited. Eventually the ship left and we were able to sail through Andvord Bay to Neko Harbour.

When we arrived at around 18:00, there was a whale next to the ship, feeding. It was wonderful to see it diving and coming up to the surface a couple of times.

The ship couldn't get close to the landing site, as in previous times, because of icebergs and bergy bits, but the distance to get to the landing site wasn't too far in any case.

Paul was awake so we both got off the ship at 19:00 for an hour or so, walking up to a viewpoint which had good views of the nearby glacier, penguin rookeries, and the bay itself. Beautiful.Read more