Carying on, THe penguins were very cute, we were advised to put aside the cameras and just watch, and carry the memories in your head. sound advice, as you can spend too long looking thru, the camera lens. The Captain had an open bridge policy, so we coild go up there at any time, and watch from there when there were icebergs, whales, penguins, seals, birds, more icebergs. really fabulous. I don't have the superlatives to describe all the experience, except to say it was the most wonderful trip. We land on mainland Antarctica, my 7 th continent, as well as various islands in the peninsula. We even found a shop! At Port Locroy, there is a british base mand during the summer, and they have some tourist stuff, postcards, maps, teatowels, etc, and a great museum of the early days. We all posted postcards, so some of you can expect them in a bout 3 months time! Some people had the chance to do a 3hour hike, across a peninsula, 27 elected to do it, there was no turning back as the ship moved on! some went for a polar plunge!! It was in an area where the sea was minutely warmed by volcanic heat, as a matter of fact, the pudles on shore were quite hot, but the sea quickly cooled it down, still some folk braved it while we all cheered!! I was sorry i didn't try it, but realistically the thought of stripping down in front of everyone was more than I could stomach!
So then suddenly it was almost over, we had a final gala dinner with the captain, oh how sexy was his voice, in his fractured english, when he gave us the Weather reports! all us old girls were swooning over him. Then he gave us a talk about piracy and Le Ponant, which is one of the ships from the line. It is one of those 4 masted sailing ships. We all thought it was going to be a "arn"
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