Christmas & New Year Cruise

The ship sailed overnight back to Börgen Bay for the polar plunge in the morning. Knowing that the weather forecast would not be good, I didn't switch my alarm clock on to wake me up for the event. I slept through until after 10:00.

I was tired. The guests in the cabin next door keep their phones linked onto the wifi, and they seem to have them on the stone bedside table. The vibration of their message notifications coming through to their phone travel through the wall and through to our bed. We can still hear it through the pillows and earplugs. The notifications come throughout the night. I guess their friends are in totally different time zone!

After Börgen Bay, the ship sailed to Fournier Bay, further northeast of Börgen Bay, for the afternoon's zodiac cruise.

The weather wasn't particularly good but Paul and I decided to go for one last time in Antarctica. I am glad we did go on the zodiac cruise. The weather brightened up a bit, the wind died down and the rain stopped.

Now and then we had a hail, but it was like grains of sand. We were glad we went out. We saw some seals and a penguin, and some whales in the bay! They were feeding, and surfaced quite often. We saw the bubbles the whales made to corral the krill into a group so that they would be easier to catch and eat. The pictures I took weren't brilliant but at least it is the memories that we take back with us will remain.

Once back on board, Paul and I went for a dip in one of the jacuzzies and had lovely views out over the bay. A whale surfaced near the ship too, and was bubble feeding. Lovely!

What a fitting farewell to Antarctica!En savoir plus