Anchoring at 0900 hrs on a calm sea, we were soon ashore at Fort Point on Greenwich Island which is a rocky point rising to 85 metres on the southeast coast of South Shetland Islands
, a place we were told was rarely visited by anyone. There were lots of penguins here (Gentoo and chinstrap) and it was a joy to watch them and then having them seemingly watch us. They did not seem to be bothered by the invasion of the tourists (not even the ones with young) but looked as if they were curious about us and looked as if they posed for photographs to be taken.
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Various views at Fort Point
Later that afternoon we went ashore at Yankee Harbour, also on Greenwich Island where there were young elephant seals and penguins. Yankee Harbour was known to both American and British sealers as early as 1820,
Various views at Yankee Harbour
After dinner we were to go ashore again but as whales had been sighted Mateos went out in the boat to try and take samples from them and photograph them in an attempt to eventually identify them individually. He used a crossbow with a modified arrow, which, when shot into the whale took a small sample of the whale skin, this will later be examined to determine various things.
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