Adjectively challenged since we got here
There is no way we can describe everything that we see, hear and feel. And every time we do, we use so many adjectives, that we are running low on new ones and as Andy and Tracy have found out, we are now Adjectively Challenged.. What is more beautiful then amazingly beautiful and absolutely stunning. What is more wonderful and surprising then being ‘gob smacked’. What is prettier then absolutely stunning?!! Antarctica does this to you.
Last night we anchored in a small hide away that we had to get to by passing in between three icebergs that were stuck. It was a narrow passage, but it also meant, nothing big was getting in! While at anchor, with the complete silence around us, you can hear that the ice is not dead. It is not a cold, lifeless piece of scenery. It is very much alive and it moans, hisses and cracks at you. And sometimes it moves as chunks break off and splash in the water.
This morning we set off very early for Charlotte Bay, not because it was far, but because we had a plan. Gijs and I went anchor up, while everybody was still sleeping (having all done an hour of ice watch during the night). We made for Charlotte bay and in the meantime we baked fresh scones and breakfast muffins, fried some bacon and scrambled some eggs, all so we could have breakfast outside, with the engine off, drifting amidst the ice in Charlotte bay. And it was STUNNING. The piece an quiet, the serenity was intense. The white of the glacier and the blue in the ice were beautiful and impressive at the same time.
As we finished breakfast and started to clear the deck a young humpback made an appearance, we turned off the engine that we had just started and drifted for a while longer, as the whale was circling us and finally dove underneath the Tecla on the aft and emerged again after 5 minutes just to our portside. What a sight! We could even see its eye as it was checking us out!
And now, after a continental snow hike on Portal Point, we are on our way to a anchorage or possible mooring along side a wreck, for the night.
Sounds just wonderful. Please post some pictures/ filmclips together with a map to get the idea of your whereabouts. All the best/ David