What can I say?! One minute we are rocking and rolling around, struggling to shower and put trousers on without sitting down first, and the next it is flat calm and we are surrounded by massive chunks of ice and icebergs you could land a plane on!
I can't put into words just how incredible yesterday was so I will just put some pictures up. Needless to say I did not remain outwardly cool, calm or professional and there was a fair amount of hopping and skipping around the decks with my camera and a stupid grin.
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| Me on a ship in sea ice |
Unusually, I thought I would include a picture of myself this time, just to prove that I really am here and to show off how well my new down vest matches my eyes!
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| I now have A LOT of pictures of icebergs and some major editing to do! |
Disappointingly, I learnt today that the way I thought the ship broke through ice is not, in fact, the actual way it breaks through ice. Either I just made it up or dreamt it, but I was sure that the bow somehow rose out of the water to smash down on the ice like a WWF wrestler elbow-dropping his/her opponent. I have been fairly reliably informed this is not the case. Luckily, to ease the disappointment, there was lots of lovely wildlife hanging out on the ice which distracted me somewhat from ice breaking.
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| Chinstrap penguins |
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| Another non-cute seal species - Leopard seals have heads rather like snakes and I don't think I approve of them |
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| This is a proper seal looking all friendly and nice (though probably not if you happen to be a crab) |
