Drakes Passage

Will take approximately 2 days to reach Antarctica. Currently around 59 degrees south and nothing but open sea all around and seen no birds, whales or anything else. A few administrative tasks to deal with, the passengers have been split into 16 groups - we are in the Minke group, just under 400 passengers and only 100 allowed on shore at anyone time. We are told it is remarkably calm for Drakes Passage,only experiencing some gentle rolling and not needed the sea sickness pills or to open the savoury (salted) crackers. But a sea mist has been coming down during the day, at breakfast you could see clearly to the horizon, but at dinner visibility was only a couple of hundred yards, Hopefully by this time tomorrow we will have had our first sighting of Antarctica.
Just to include a picture this was taken on 27th and you can vaguely see the first iceberg on the horizonRead more