Wilhelmina Bay should also be named Whalemina Bay we started the morning in glass-like conditions with zodiac cruising. We had a sleeping or logging humpback whale 50m from the starboard bow. We cruised around the southern side of Nansen Island looking for more humpback whales and we could hear their gentle exhalations or blows drifting across the water, one of the gentlest sounds one could hear. We cruised along the edge of the fast ice.