The seas calmed a little and Jeff is up and about just in time for our first trip ashore. We saw chin strap penguins and lots of babies. They have no fear of us but we had to stay 15 ft away, some of them came right up to us. Jeff took an optional additional hike and saw a fair number of Weddell seals and two suicidal penguins which wandered quite close to one seal. Thankfully the seal was either asleep or just not hungry. Took over 100 picture but can’t show them all to you. One will be hanging on our wall when we get back and one is, in humble opinion, National Geographic quality, but I haven’t asked the experts on board about that yet. Temp in middle 30’s.
Adorable!
View from cabin.
Shore of Halfmoon island. Penguins coming ashore.
Two little dots on snow are penguins trying to get back to their babies. They kept falling but finally made it.
Beach goers.
antarctica trip 2013 
Those are great! Glad that Jeff was able to get out and enjoy the little critters with you!
Beautiful pictures enjoy looking at them everyday glad Jeff is feeling better
Loving all of the photos BMom and Jeff is a funny man. Keep up the blog and have fun!
Yeah Penguins!!!! It’s so beautiful there and a lot warmer than here. Freezing my but off -40 below wind chill.
Love you!
Makes me want to book a trip! Are there other people with you or just animals?
Beautiful! So glad one of your dreams are coming true!! What a trip. Can you believe you are actually there? These photos are fabulous….keep ‘um coming. Can’t wait to see all of them…love this blog! See you tomorrow…Barb and Harry.