Deep South adventures, day 8

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The sun goes down about midnight now and rises about 2. The mountains still make it hard to see the sun rise, but the sky is very nice.


We cruised a long until about 8 in the morning, going along the peninsula looking for a safe place to go ashore.


Our over all course is not so straight forward.


But, we found a place. They even let folks kayak today.


(We did not sign up for the kayaking. They’re clear this is not a place for novices.)

The icebergs get pretty close to the ship. I’m glad we have the ice class hull.


They do rotate the groups. So, even though we are still group 10, groups 1 and 2 go last, so we went 8th.


The morning was just a zodiac cruise around the harbor we were in, including an old shipwreck of a whaling vessel from 1916. I guess the oil caught fire and they just abandoned it here, a year after my father was born,















I shot a lot of the video on this on my GoPro. The woman across the boat waved and said to say hi to all my friends.


It had been pretty rough, so my wife rested while I had lunch in the restaurant with the good view.


And, the ship moved to another area.


The sun came out and it was very pretty, but blinding.


In the afternoon we got ready to go ashore again.


The water was quite rough, so no video of it as I was hanging on while watching waves crash over my wife next to me.

But, we got to shore. It was beautiful.














We did spend some time talking with the marine biologist/ornithologist. The ship has several of each, but he’s the only one that does both.


The trip back wasn’t as bad as we were going with the waves, but, I still held on and didn’t take out the camera.

After dinner we remained in the bay for a while.



I’m told the weather forecast for tomorrow is not good. We’re going to try a place between two islands that they hope will be sheltered, but they’re not really sure.
We’ll see.

Comments

[threemeninaboat]

All the pictures are broken?

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OK, I think I've got it fixed. Sorry for the problem, and that it took so long to figure out my word processor used fancy " marks that the code didn't like for the photo tags...

[threemeninaboat]

Thank you! It's so blue! Ans I love that ship.

[brickhousewench]

Kayaking? *Shivers* that sounds really cold. And yes, probably not for novices.

It really does look beautiful down there.

What are the flags for? Just so you know where you started/should gather to go back to the boat?

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The flags mark where they have checked the snow and made sure there are no crevices big enough to take a person.
They are VERY clear you should not stray past them as all bets would be off. The snow is 10 to 15 foot deep there, and you could just disappear.

[brickhousewench]

I figured it was a safety thing, but EEEK I hadn't though of disappearing into a crevasse!

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The flags mark where they have checked for crevices in the snow that are big enough to swallow a person.
They are VERY clear not to go past them. The snow is very deep, much taller than me, and a person could just disappear into it.