• New Year's Expedition Cruise

    Neko Harbour & Skontorp Cove

    January 3 in Antarctica ⋅ ☁️ -1 °C

    I was extremely tired this morning so I didn't go ashore in Neko Harbour. Paul had done a night shift so he slept well into the morning.

    In the afternoon the clouds came in but it didn't deter us from going on a zodiac cruise in the afternoon at Skontorp Cove.

    There was a young humpback whale in the bay and we saw crabseals sleeping on icebergs. We saw Antarctic shag (cormorants with beautiful bright bluefeathers around their eyes), snowy petrels, snowy sheathbills, Arctic terns and peguins. We were near Brown's Base but we didn't go ashore there.    Read more