were all fluffy and exceptionally cute and to have the chance to just sit down in a penguin rookery is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience. We also saw at least five Weddell seals hauled out on the beach and towards the furthest point on the island there was a colony of Blue-eyed Shags. We took a very slow walk down to their colony and whilst interesting in themselves they didn’t really have quite the same appeal to us as those charismatic little penguins. The four hours flew by and we were all sad to say goodbye to these charming little fellows. Again the zodiacs moved fairly slowly back to the ship having to negotiate their way through hundreds of swimming penguins. Once back on board we heard that the divers had had a extraordinary dive and although only in 4 meters of water, they had been able to sit on the seabed and have a wonderful display of underwater penguin behaviour. Everyone was in high spirits and the ship was buzzing with enthusiasm for our next planned la

nding.

After lunch we headed up to the bridge and caught up with a few of our new found friends Everybody seemed to be drifting into natural groups and we were definitely enjoying the company of Phil, Gary, Doris and Jacob. Due to the weather we were able to stand out on deck and enjoy the sunshine. We couldn’t believe that we were in Antarctica and we were getting a suntan! It was glorious weather and everyone was hoping that it would continue this way. We were now getting further and further into the Weddell Sea and were dumfounded by the magnificent tabular icebergs that were all around us. This is one of the reasons why we had chosen this ship, to get into the realm of enormous icebergs and we certainly weren’t disappointed. It was a surreal landscape and again we thanked our lucky stars that we were actually standing there watching the most extraordinary landscape we had ever seen. It was like nothing we had ever seen before and the Watch