Noon position : 65* 05’S 63* 58’W Sea temperature - 1.8C Air temperature - 2.0C
I was up at 0200 hrs to do the anchor watch with Andreas at Arthur Harbour. It was quiet, cold but still light with no icebergs to bother the ship.
The anchor was raised at 0600 hrs and we proceeded to the Lemaire Channel, named in 1898 for Charles Lemaire. The channel is known for it’s steep sides and we were told that no ship had been able to transverse the channel this year because of there being too much ice. (Bedding was changed today and a chocolate was put on each bunk!)
The ship motored slowly up the channel dodging icebergs but we were unable to break through due to pack ice.
Inadvertently I had become the person on the ship who had been furthest south. I had been up the bowsprit when lunch was called so everyone else left and as the ship turned because we could not get through the ice I became the one who had been the furthest south on this voyage (65 degrees,06 minutes, 08 seconds South).
As we reversed our course, now under sail, the ship, National Geographic Explorer, hared past us as if she had nothing to worry about. She did pass out of sight and I thought she had made her way through the ice but she later returned and passed us at speed back down the channel. While the sails were being put up we had a chance to sail round the Europa and take some photos.
I was up at 0200 hrs to do the anchor watch with Andreas at Arthur Harbour. It was quiet, cold but still light with no icebergs to bother the ship.
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| The view from the wheel house |
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| The view in the wheel house |
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| The view in the wheel house |
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| The radar screen |
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| A screen showing the wind speed and direction |
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| A view from the wheel house to the port side |
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| A view from the wheel house to the starboard side |
The ship motored slowly up the channel dodging icebergs but we were unable to break through due to pack ice.
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| The Lemaire Channel |
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| Icebergs in the channel |
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| The Lemaire Channel |
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| The Lemaire Channel and me |
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| The Lemaire Channel |
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| The Lemaire Channel |
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| Icebergs in the channel |
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| Europa in the channel |
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| Going back down the Lemaire Channel |
As we reversed our course, now under sail, the ship, National Geographic Explorer, hared past us as if she had nothing to worry about. She did pass out of sight and I thought she had made her way through the ice but she later returned and passed us at speed back down the channel. While the sails were being put up we had a chance to sail round the Europa and take some photos.
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| Going back down the Lemaire Channel |
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| The National Geographic Explorer flying past us |
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| Trying to get through the channel |
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