It became somewhat dark as the weather appeared increasingly threatening. Snow flurries sprinkled the deck of the Zodiac as we cruised through the ice. It was so thick it was like driving through slush. I was happy our driver had a radiophone as we couldn't see the ship, let alone any other Zodiac. He kept in constant touch with them.
Whales have a habit of appearing at meal times.
We came up on deck as fast as possible. We stood outside to watch the humpbacks surface, blow, then sound. They may have interrupted our meal, but it was time to come up on deckanyway because we had approached the Lemaire Channel. It is considered to be the most beautiful natural wonder in the world. The ice floated by as if in a frozen dream, the ship sometimes meeting a mass of obstinate ice.