• Lemaire Channel

    January 1, 2025 in Antarctica ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C

    As we left Pleneau Bay, another ship made its way to where we had been.
    It is another ship's turn to visit the site.

    We sailed through Lemaire Channel and were going to go to Hidden Bay for a zodiac cruise.

    Paul had warned the expedition team about the wind conditions not being good, and overall it was blowing in the wrong direction so the bay wouldn’t have been sheltered. By the time we sailed part-way through the Lemaire Channel, the wind conditions hadn’t changed.

    Deloncle Bay is about midway through the Lemaire Channel and currently it is quite sheltered, so the expedition team have decided to do a zodiac cruise here instead.
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