We had 8 scheduled land excursions in the Antarctic and we made seven of them, which was remarkable. The only time that we didn’t make it to shore was at Brown Bluff. These photos will give you a good understanding of why we didn’t make it to shore this time.

This first photo was taken off the bow of the ship. When I walked up to the front of the ship and saw where we were headed, I thought the captain must be crazy. Why on earth would he steer us between those icebergs in the photo?

The next two photos will tell you why. It only looked worse off to both sides – and the bergs just kept getting bigger. So the captain said Brown Bluff was a bust and I had no argument with that decision at all.