Antarctica part 2

So where was I , yes 4 straight sunny days, as the Captain said we paid our dues to Antarctica in the Drakes Crossing, I will jump around as I will do this from my head rather than referring to my notes, We went out every day, twice, landing evry day and often twice, but sometimes a zodiac cruise, for example there is an area called Iceberg Alley, hundreds of icebergs, aground, huge,  very spectacular, all that beautiful blue ice, arches, caves, flat ones low ones, high, one, and then I saw the first whale on our zodiac... talk about a thrill, we saw 12/13 Minke whales... Our zodiac driver, who was actually the expedition leader, Juan, id he had never seen more than 3/4 together at any one time. Special. we spent about 90 minutes out , which is plenty in those temperatures, I ran my battery flat in  the camers, and we stopped in a seclu spot, turned off the motor and just listened to the sea and the ice it was awesome. Then we had champagne. They really knew how to celebrate the experience. Another time we stopped beside a huge ice floe and we were able to land on it and had photos takenetc. The expedition crew went out before us and marked out routes that werre safe for us to walk on, on the glaciers, and along the beaches so we didn't upset the penguins and seals. the penguins were in a moult stage, a lot of them, so they stay pretty quiet, so as not to use a lot of energy, as they can't go into the sea when they are in moult.The chicks were almost big enough to go i to the water,q and were just a little fluffy. Penguins are so funny to just watch for minutes at a time