We arrived in the early hours to the Antarctic Peninsula as National Geographic Explorer made her way into Antarctic Sound, navigating through ice flows and penguins towards the fast ice attached to Joinville Island. As the ship pushed into the ice and the gangway was lowered for ice walks, it seems every Adelie penguin within sight wanted to check us out!
The afternoon was spent finding leopard seals, Weddell seals, and all the brush-tailed penguins around the ice before those brave/silly enough aboard went for a polar plunge.
