The plan for today was to sail by Elephant Island and go ashore if we could. We were up early and during breakfast they announced that an iceberg had been spotted which cleared the dinning room. Here are pictures of several icebergs spotted today.
About 8:30 we started to see Elephant Island. It pretty much looked like any other island with a few glaciers on it. Here are a couple of pictures.
It turned out that the seas were too rough to go ashore.
After we passed Elephant Island, we continued our journey to the peninsula. Rick and I took a nap.
In the afternoon, we had a quiz covering the trip so far. Our team, the polar attitudes (the name of the cruise line is polar latitudes), won. We won a bottle of champagne, split between eight people.
That evening we had our briefing during which our expedition leader told us about the itinerary for the next day and the weather. Then we had dinner and made it an early night since it’s likely to be an early morning because tomorrow we get to the peninsula—yippeee!