Today we enjoyed another landing and day of activities. The gentoo penguins, with their bright red beaks and white heads, were endlessly entertaining as they made their way between the scattered rookeries and the sea. They mirrored our inquisitiveness. In the afternoon a brave cohort decided to test their mettle by undertaking a polar plunge from the tender pit.

Then we gathered on the observation decks as we sailed through the Lemaire Channel, a narrow channel bounded by towering vertical cliffs covered in hanging glaciers. The evening sky was bright and clear as we navigated between the icebergs in the channel, finishing with the majestic towers of Cape Renard and the Una Peaks.