Drake Passage
As we leave the ice-filled waters of Antarctica, we are welcomed back to temperate climes by friendly seas and sunshine glinting from the ripples on the southern ocean.
Pintado petrels glide playfully along with the ship as southern fulmars paint the still waters with the stiff brushstrokes of their stubby wings. Black-browed albatrosses, more dependant on the open-ocean winds for their endless foraging flights, are only occasionally seen.
Crossing the Drake Passage over uncharacteristically calm seas is a good time to review images made on this Photo Expedition to the White Continent (today’s photo).
By the time we reach the Falklands we will have traveled 670 nautical miles from our last stop at King George Island. Tomorrow morning the pastoral greens of the west Falkland Islands will contrast with the stark Antarctic seascapes still fresh in our minds.
As we leave the ice-filled waters of Antarctica, we are welcomed back to temperate climes by friendly seas and sunshine glinting from the ripples on the southern ocean.
Pintado petrels glide playfully along with the ship as southern fulmars paint the still waters with the stiff brushstrokes of their stubby wings. Black-browed albatrosses, more dependant on the open-ocean winds for their endless foraging flights, are only occasionally seen.
Crossing the Drake Passage over uncharacteristically calm seas is a good time to review images made on this Photo Expedition to the White Continent (today’s photo).
By the time we reach the Falklands we will have traveled 670 nautical miles from our last stop at King George Island. Tomorrow morning the pastoral greens of the west Falkland Islands will contrast with the stark Antarctic seascapes still fresh in our minds.
