Antarctica ---- Way cooler than I thought, not temperature-wise! Animal-wise!

On the way back across the Drake Passage, we were in quite a gale! The wind was gale force 8, a hurricane is 12!We were out of the boat 2-3 times a day, a much more active trip than I expected!
We saw lots of fur, crabeater, weddell, leopard, and elephant seals. Also we walked among the gentoo, adele and chinstrap penguins, and other birds (like the blue-eyed shags in the picture) too!. From the boat and zodiacs we saw orca, humpback and minke whales! We were next to a sleeping humpback whale for an hour!