Unfortunately we don’t have any photos from this zodiac trip - but the weather wasn’t the best and I’m sure by the time you plough through all of the photos, you will realise that you have seen tons of icebergs already and you don’t need to see anymore of them especially in the fog!

I think everybody retired to their cabins to catch up on a few hours sleep. Just before lunch we entered the Lemaire Channel. This is an incredibly picturesque part of the peninsula and is only 7 miles long and very narrow in parts. This place reminded us of some parts of Northern Norway and was very scenic.

Just after lunch we arrived at Port Lockroy on Wiencke Island. We were visited by Rick the base commander of Port Lockroy. Port Lockroy has a small museum, post office and souvenir shop

and the staff live here for 4 months of the year. It is run on behalf of the Antarctic Heritage Trust and was built by the British during World War 2. After the war it was used by the British Antarctic Survey unit and used as a scientific station until 1962. The building fell into disrepair but was restored and now serves as museum for visitors to the island. Rick gave us a talk on the history and current use of the island.

After the talk we changed for a landing and made our way to the zodiacs. After we landed we checked out the museum which didn’t really take long and wasn’t particularly interesting! We also gave the souvenir shop a wide berth due to the high prices. The island has a fair sized Gentoo penguin colony who nest very close to the buildings. The penguins seem very tame and we figured that the numbers of visitors to this place will have an effect on the penguins. Myself and Rob