Today we got off the ship again and into the water for a kayak among icebergs and the “polar plunge.” What a trip!
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Globetrottin’
We saw our first big penguin colonies, and tried our best at being National Geographic wildlife photographers.
We finished the Drake Passage with our stomachs intact and got our first sights of the White Continent! The winds are down, and the stoke is high.
There is no land at this latitude, so the wind blows uninterrupted around the world. Huge waves and storms can ensue, or it can be entirely calm. Crossing can either be “the drake shake” or a “drake lake.” We got a bit of both.
