Blanco Bay

Yesterday we passed Drake passage. It can be the roughest water to pass, but we got very lucky and the ocean was calm.
Today we got a tour to Newan’s Station. It is is a colony of approximately 200 breeding pairs of Gentoo penguins.

We got up at 7:30am, had breakfast and by 8:30am we ready to go ashore. Our tour was at 12:30pm, so we had plenty of time before our tour to get on the tender boat and then walk in the town.
I asked Boris to go to a lounge where he can get a tender boat tickets and then meet me one deck lower before going to the tender boat. Meanwhile I took a wheelchair and a motor to the lower deck to ask where we can leave a wheelchair while we are on the tour.
After 15 min of wait for Boris to come to meet me, I went to the Insignia lounge to see if he is there. He was not. I went on the tender boat deck, nobody seen him there too.
I went back to one deck up and continued waiting for him. Another 45 minutes passed. No Boris. I repeated all over again…Insignia lounge, tender boat level, back to level 4.
Then I mentioned to guest services that my husband is missing. They check and told me “he took a tender boat and he is on the shore”.
I had to drag a wheelchair to Insignia lounge, wait for tender ticket, go two deck lower, take tender boat. All this time Boris was waiting for me on the shore.
The crew member told him to board the tender boat and they would find me, but nobody looked for me and as soon as he got on the boat, it took off.

Finally we were on the shore together. We went for a walk, but it was very windy and cold, so we found a coffee shop and spent some time there before our tour.

The tour started by getting into a mini bus with a drive/guide and drive for 15 min to Newans Station.
There we transferred to a 4x4 for another 15 min off road drive to Gentoo penguins.
There were also two King penguins among them. After one hour on the beach with the penguins and hot chocolate with penguins shaped cookies, we made our way back to the tender boat.
In the evening we went to a buffet for a dinner and the to see a wonderful singer.Read more