We are at this moment sailing in the Drake Passage due south just about at 60 degrees south latitude. To those not familiar with geography that is pretty darn far south. It is Antarctica, plain and simple.
The weather has been superb, the best so far actually, yet this area can be about the most brutal in the world. It seems to be a Crap Shoot regarding coming down here. One of the polar lecture team said that he has been down here some 90 times and this is in the top 10% regarding weather. He has been here in 18 meter swells, we have too. So, all the fuss and bother regarding weather and visibility warnings we have had are, to date, of no concern. I may regret saying that for we could be in terrible seas in a matter of hours.
The mood in the ship is apprehensive as most have not been here and have not seen icebergs so they are looking forward to that but not looking forward to the cold that goes with that.
Some of us have a faint hope that the ship may get below the Antarctica Circle as we are just about maybe 150 miles from it, but that is a bit of a stretch.
There were several lectures today, five in total, that worked out as we have been out of sight of land since last night and all there was to see was open ocean.
Tonight was a formal night so we all get dressed up. The theme was Winter Wonderland Dinner and it is all about ice and cold, hence the blue dress for Fellette and blue tie for me.
Sister Moe would be pleased to hear that I wore her husband Ralph's blue cuff links that Moe passed on to me tonight.
Maybe we have icebergs at our balcony tomorrow morning, who knows .
We moved the chair and placed my camera on my iPad that was atop the ice bucket holder that was sitting on the chair to get this shot of this decked out couple for the dinner tonight.
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