Drakes Passage - 63 degrees south

Another sea day, started foggy and slowly cleared before the mist started returning. However did clear just enough for us to see our first iceberg, faintly visible on the horizon.A few more admin tasks, we now have boots and were shown how to put the snowshoes on, however the demonstration video had the demonstrator on knees doing this on a model. As not allowed to kneel or bend too much etc (fear of contaminating snow and ice) not sure how well that has equipped us for this task. Tomorrow we reach our first stop and are scheduled for a zodiac trip and later a landing assuming the weather holds good.Read more