Thinking of going to South America and Antarctica on Princess ?

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19 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

Remember to have spare batteries for your camera, the cold really zaps them, although when you warm them back up you find there is still life in them, so they do not take that long to recharge.

 

Excellent advice Mic . We had 3 batteries for each camera and we left the cameras outside when we were on wildlife alert . The cameras would fog up moving them from hot to cold and reverse so we just switched batteries and no problem . We also took microfiber cloths to clean the lens and extra SD cards .

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We love these  Lenticular clouds

 

 

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Another ship on the horizon ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Looks like a mushroom cloud

 

 

close up

 

 

 

We could see the other ship well now . It was the Hurtigruten MS Midnatsol 

 

 

They were tucked in pretty close to the glacier 

 

 

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We saw a couple of Gerlache orcas near the ship

 

 

 

 

Source : https://us.whales.org/wdc-in-action/meet-different-types-of-orca

 

Gerlache orcas, named for the Gerlache Strait of the Antarctic Peninsula where they are most often found, are smaller than Type A and Pack Ice orcas.  They also may appear brown or yellowish because of diatoms and have a cape of pale color.  Their preferred diet is unknown, but they have been seen feeding on penguins and are usually spotted around penguin colonies. 

 

We finished the evening photographing a couple of old friends .

 

 

 

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Nice whale shots.

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1 hour ago, MicCanberra said:

Nice whale shots.

 

Thanks they were very nimble and agile .

Edited November 14, 2019 by scubacruiserx2

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In the morning it looked like it was going to be a gray day

 

 

 

 

 

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We decided to head up top to introduce some more color into the photos

 

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We were moving toward a Chilean base to try to see a penguin colony there

 

 

The Silver Cloud was already there with boats in the water

 

 

 

An Adelie penguin

 

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The Orcas were back

 

 

 

And this time they were chasing a penguin

 

 

 

Video clip :

 

 

 

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And on a slightly different note , I had my lucky whale shirt on and we hoped that it would work .

 

 

We were just taking in the view from the balcony

 

 

 

when a loud wooosh erupted in front of us .

 

 

It looked like it was going to ram us .

 

 

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It hesitated for a second , and arched it's back

 

 

and raised it's tail a little  and left a calling card

 

 

 

 

DW's video of the whale :

 

 

Edited November 16, 2019 by scubacruiserx2

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We were up at 6 AM on December 31 , 2018 to see Deception Island

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception_Island

 

And from what we could see , it lived up to it's name

 

 

 

Fog rolling in

 

 

A ghost ship ?

 

 

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Penguins on a volcanic beach

 

 

 

This ship past us

 

 

and it and the island disappeared into the fog while we moved onward .

 

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Chinstrap Penguins

 

 

 

They are fast as you can see in this video clip :

 

 

 

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We heard this announcement on TV about a giant iceberg 

 

 

They later said that was 11 miles long and 5 miles wide so we went out back to see it 

 

 

 

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We were now en route to King George Island the largest of the South Shetland Islands 

 

 

 

There we would be entering Admiralty Bay

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty_Bay_(South_Shetland_Islands)

 

 

The sun had  come out a bit helping to brighten things up

 

 

 

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Sailing out of Antarctica and 2018

 

 

 

 

 

The Polish Antarctic base

 

 

Edited November 17, 2019 by scubacruiserx2

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Penguins on the rocks

 

 

 

Picking up speed

 

 

And our last whale sighting

 

 

With the South Shetlands in our rear view mirror we were now headed North toward the Falkland Islands

 

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Wonderful pics.

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10 hours ago, MicCanberra said:

Wonderful pics.

 

Thanks Mic . It's such a beautiful area and we feel privileged to have been there .