Thursday, January 13, 2011
This morning we arrived at and anchored off Point Wild, Elephant Island. We had now also arrived in the Antarctic.
The weather at Point Wild was nice so out came the zodiacs and off cruising around the bay we went, no landing this time, no real beaches to speak of. We got a very close look at the tiny little beach on which Shackleton’s men survived for about 4,5 months. While cruising around the bay and in front of the glacier we were ‘entered’ by the red zodiac and subsequently offered hot chocolate and baileys – that went down well at 9:30 in the morning :-).
By noon all zodiacs were back on board and TW set sail towards the Antarctic Peninsula.
Around 8pm all residents (and social residents like us) were invited to ‘White Out’, a party thrown by 2 residents. There was lots of yummy food and drink, ice carvings of penguins and birds, and the whole venue had been covered in white. At the end of dinner the Captain gave a speech… and as he said: ‘I give you White Out’, all the curtains where pulled open and we looked upon tabular icebergs all around. Quite magical.
Caroline.
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