Our morning excursion takes place at Hydrugra Rocks, named after the scientific name of the Leopard Seal. We are at the northern end of the Gerlache Strait. As we board the zodiacs, a humpback whale dives deep right beside us, his tail fluking perfectly against the iceberg behind us. When we approach land, two Weddell Seals greet us. They are lounging on the snow and hardly notice us. It makes me happy that the wildlife hardly notices us - it means that the tour operators are

I’m awakened by icebergs. The ship is moving and I can hear and feel ice crashing against the sides. Sadly, the Neumayer Channel is blocked by so much ice that we can’t get through. This happens a lot on Antarctic expeditions, and the team comes up with another, equally as exciting plan for the day. Our first excursion is a zodiac cruise around Cape Willems and some of the most beautiful icebergs we have seen. There is one that is almost spiked, and one with an arch big enoug

On our way to our next landing site, we pass the mountain that you see when you open Lightroom. It is something I see nearly every day on my computer, and to see it in real life is surreal. The ice prevents us from making it to our first landing place on time, so we carry on down the Neumayer Strait until lunch. It is much the same scenery, but closer. It’s a narrow strait and the landscape feels as if you could reach out and touch it. Giant icebergs float by, and I still can

Neko Bay We make our way toward the next landing spot and I spend these hours on deck. Even though I’m a writer and a photographer, I doubt that I can fully capture the beauty, the wildness and the wonder that is Antarctica. The light is almost pink, but the blue of the glaciers steal the show. Icebergs and bergy bits (small pieces of icebergs that have broken off) fill the water. The ship navigates through a strait overflowing with icebergs and I have no idea how the captain