Brown Bluff and the Antarctic Sound

Today we sailed all day until hrs 1700, when we arrived in Brown Bluff, Antarctic Sound on the northern part of the peninsula. on our way the weather cleared up so we could see land in the distance and eventually many tabular ice-sheets, which most are larger than skyscrapers...

We passed the Argentine base at Esperanza, meaning hope in spanish. this base is fully manned year round and they even have children there, which is quite unusual.

We landed at Brown bluff, which is a small outcrop of volcanic rocks, a moberg in icelandic or a tabular mountain, created by a sub-glacial eruption (volcano under a glacier) some time ago...

here there are 20 000 adelie penguins and some gentoo penguins. the landing went well, but it was -0.3 degrees in the water, a cold wind and around 0 in air temperature.

Now we are sailing across the strait and will make two landings tomorrow on the South Shetland islands and the we cross the Drake passage again...