It's a beautiful Tuesday morning, 20 NM off the coast of Cape Denison at Commonwealth Bay. During the 'night' (when the sun didn't set at all, but merely transected the horizon for an hour, just after midnight), we steamed past magnificent icebergs in the pack ice. Adelie Penguins abound, living on the ice floes, scurrying for the safety of the water with the ship's approach, then skimming along the surface and diving under floes. I stayed up, soaking it all in until the sun started it's upwards path from the horizon, about 1 am.
Commonwealth Bay itself is clear of ice, apart from some bergs in the distance, broken off from Mertz Glacier to the East. The Antarctic coast is magnificent, awesome, and very, very white. Jon says the coast is a lot whiter than his last trip!
All our cabins are packed and we're waiting for the helicopter to take us the next leg of the journey. It will take many round trips in all to get us and all the gear to shore.
Tony Stewart
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