Passing Livingston Island

January 31, 1994

2:45pm

We are just passing Livingston Island, and I took a Panorama picture of it. It's much larger than I expected. I thought at first that we were looking at part of the Antarctic Peninsula. The way the clouds hug the tops of the glaciers and mountains, it's impossible to see how high the island goes. It's just sea, then rock and glacier, then... Who knows? There's an icy majesty about the view that can't possibly turn out on film, I'm sure.

A small bit of Livingston Island

Just before this, we watched penguins hopping around in the water, just like dolphins. Swimming along, bobbing up and down through the water. Very fast.

We also watched a Russian Ship pass by in the reverse direction. This was actually the ship that carried the luggage of about 40 of our passengers to the Argentine station at Half-moon island. I noted several of the passengers on our ship waving gratefully to the Russian ship. As a side note, the Russian ship was being used as a tourist vessel, which probably carried mostly American passengers.


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