Quite a sight, wish I'd been there. I mean, not up on the Bridge or the 02 Deck or where ever camera angles could be had, but rather in the Zodiac. Quite a sight to see indeed. Low Island is mostly glaciated, just little bits of barren ground and a small beach here and there. Off to one side many dark pillars of rock rise out of the sea, waves crashing and the winds whipping the spray very far.
Birds seem to follow ships, sharp pointed black and white wings outstretched.
They hardly ever flap, just holding in the wind and zipping along the wave tops. Between the Gould and the Zodiacs are many of these birds. The sea blue and undulating and all waves capped with white. Behind us the sun is setting, or what passes for setting down here where there is no longer any true darkness. To walk where so few have set a foot, where none lives but briefly and where the beauty is that of our world's greatest extremes.