SNOW PETRELS

During the 8th , 9th and 10th we cruised around the Antarctic Penninsula, taking in Admiralty Bay and the Polish Research Station. A force ten prevented us from navigating the Neumayer Channel on the 9th. I had reached the most southerly point of the trip being 64°55.2'S, 063°17.0'W at noon of the 9th. We returned up the Gerlache strait and Bransfield Straits en route for Deception Island on the 10th.

Snow Petrels (above and below)

Antarctic Tern were numerous

 Always worth scanning the larger Icebergs for resting Snow Petrels 

The Polish Research Station below.  A cold looking place in the summer let alone the depths of an Antarctic winter

White morph Southern Giant Petrels were very impressive in the flesh..

Yellow webs on Wilson's Petrels are definetly not something you see with ease in the UK