Visiting the Antarctic peninsula, but first a visit to Point Wild on Elephant Island where Ernest Shackleton's Endurance crew sheltered for four and a half months in 1916. The monument and bust there is to Luis Alberto Pardo Villalón, the captain of the Chilean boat that rescued them.
Landfall in Antarctica itself was made a Brown Bluff, home to colonies of Gentoo and Adélie penguins. There was much thievery of pebbles used in the making of nests. Further south at Danco Island the Gentoos trudged up the hill, as did we, to make nests with spectacular views of the Arctowski Peninsula and Rongé Island, which they largely ignored. A spectacular Antarctic sunset was provided at Lemaire Channel, between Graham Land and Booth Island. Two refuges at Damoy Point, a British historic site and an Argentine hut that seems to have seen better days. More Gentoos picking nesting sites with spectacular views. Last stop was Port Lockroy and our luck with the weather ran out.
