Don't eat yellow snow (Damoy Point & Neko Harbor) - 27 January 2009

Life on the boat is developing into a rhythm, namely:

• Eat
• Land (and take about 200 photographs)
• Eat
• Land
• Eat
• Sleep

Today's landings were Damoy Point & Neko Harbor.  Damoy Point had a number of Gentoo colonies, plus a hill we could climb.  I would guess about 1 out of 4 guests climbed it, and the view was spectacular - until you looked down and could see two other cruise ships.  So much for the image of Antarctica as an isolated place.  You can however, create the illusion of isolation with your photographs.  Here's a Gentoo all by himself:

And here's another one, walking in front of the mountains:





In discussing our photographs the point was made that the pictures you take say more about you than what you're photographing. Evidently I like single animals.

Blonde Assassinator asked about how cold it was - at Damoy Point it was around 50 degrees Fahrenheit. People were shedding layers left and right.

After our landing we also got to kayak. Jen and I both took several pictures of this iceberg:





The afternoon was spent at Neko Harbor where we hiked up to get a view of a glacier:





I've got a much better understanding of how people fall into crevasses now.

Lest you tire of icebergs and lone animals, here are a couple of familiar ones:







And yes, Jen did check the snow before lying down in it.