What a Day and What a Night
Ocean Tramp – Mike Reyfman
Yesterday on Friday, Dec. 27th we started our day early with landing at Jougla Point and had an incredible experience. Sun has finally come out after the week of true Antarctic weather and lit dramatic Seven Sisters range. We had very tame Gentoo penguins on the foreground, Weddell seals and weathered Humpback whale carcass in the middle and Seven Sister Range on the back – Unbeatable panorama!
After spending almost two hours at Jougla we moved to GB polar base Port Lockroy. There are a post office and the gift shop on the base where we bought souvenirs and sent massive amount of post cards. We also photographed
Gentoo penguins with little, just hatched chicks.
Upon returning to Ocean Tramp we started the sail toward Lemaire Channel passing on the way breathtaking peaks of Anvers island. Lemaire was spectacular and we spent several hours on deck shooting in all directions while crew did incredible job getting us through very dense ice. Off Le maire we went through iceberg graveyard and arrived to our anchoring place for the night Pleneau Cove.
We anchored in a calm cove in front of beautiful Booth Island and spent midnight shooting beautiful gold-lit landscape and exploring nearby shore by zodiac. We were privileged to get spectacular midnight sunset in mind-blowing location and came back at 1:00 in the morning tired and happy!
Today, on Dec. 28th we made our way through very dense ice (kudos to Niall and the whole crew on ice watch) and anchored to the ice next to the Ukranian Antarctic Base – Vernadsky which we are about to visit at 21:00 tonight.
By Mike Reyfman
Photo Mike Reyfman
