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We sat snugly all night. Late evening a crowd of small bits of Ice came to our bay for a visit but by morning had drifted off. Iceberg Alley around the corner is still very full. Yesterday everyone spent several hours ashore communing with the thousands of Gentoo Penguins, the odd seal and a number of Skua birds who can be quite aggressive towards us but can be chased away by the penguins. The ritual of waddling several hundred meters, sometimes from very far up the surrounding hills, in order to find food in the sea and then repeat the process to eventually find the right chick is very interesting to observe. After the shore excursions, Nik, Paolo and I went for a dinghy stroll down Iceberg Alley, I think Nik wanted to visit each berg personally. We left a little after nine having had
to chop off a great deal of kelp off the anchor chain and the anchor. We picked
our way through lots of ice towards
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