AT SEA!

The Drake seems as though it’s going to be kind to us again! My illness seems to have settled in my throat which is half swimming and camping and half the patch. Other than that, I feel a bit tired, but there was plenty of time to nap. (tired due to sick, patch, and the gentle lull of the ship.) So after breakfast I went back to sleep. The morning activity was the Iron Penguin Challenge where teams of 4 do goofy relevant stuff all over the boat like eating vegemite on a cracker, melting an ice cube in their mouths,



a lap around the ship in a backwards life jacket and mud boots on the wrong feet, an animal question all ending with a lap around the plunge pool.







I had had my fill of plunging into ice cold water, so once the challenge was underway, I went up to the pool to watch. There were 6 teams in the open division and 1 in the family division. The 2 kids on the boat were game for everything! So another nap, another feeding and the afternoon brought more lectures. Lynn did a "Conservation of Antarctic Wildlife" lecture which was pretty interesting and John did “Who Owns Antarctica?” which I skipped. At some point after the Iron Penguin competition, they showed “The Farce of the Penguins”, a spoof on “The March of the Penguins” which was funny for about 20 minutes, but then it got really old so I left. I spent some time on the bridge and bow hanging out and giggling, another feeding, then an old 1920s film about rounding Cape Horn which was narrated by the guy who took the film 60 years later. Very interesting and very rough seas! We checked out the awesome pictures in the multi media centers “Best of” pictures from the passengers. There are some great pictures in there. Peregine will make us a disc at the end of the trip with all those pictures as well as a route map, staff bios (which are VERY impressive), and e-mails for all the passangers on the ship. A great bonus! A bit more wine in the bar, and to bed by midnight.