Antarctica Peninsula I: Brown Bluff / Antarctic Sound

14 January

At sea in the morning toward Antarctic Peninsula

Tabular and pack ice. Cape and Wilson petrels. Brown Browed Albatross. Minke whale? Pod of Orcas (the first of two big Orca events). Humpbacks and long whale chase, delaying:

Brown Bluff, landing (7:30)

Landing: Brown Bluff (late)

Brown Bluff at north end of the Antarctic Pensinsula, and on the south side of the Antarctic Sound. Famous colony of Adélie penguins (gray chicks) and Gentoo with larger fledglings than we had seen before.