Our next shore excursion was to Cuverville Island. Cuverville had some interesting sights and action happening on the island including whale bones, penguins, glaciers, creeks, grounded icebergs, steep cliffs, snow, mosses and lichens.

Our landing spot was on the end of the spit of land on the left in the first photo. The photo was taken from our ship as others were heading into the island. Our small boats had to weave their way through the icebergs to get to the landing location.

In the second photo, we had hiked up the cliff which you can see behind Vicky. It continues to go up rather steeply. You can also see a glacier behind Vicky in the photo and of course, a gentoo penguin colony.

I’m kneeling near some old whale bones on shore in the third photo. These bones seemed large at the time, but we learned from seeing others that these were actually on the small side. Also, if you look above me and slightly to the right, you can see a penguin “porpoising” out of the water – nice catch by Vicky on that photo. The penguin standing right behind me looks a bit bored. I suppose he decided that I wasn’t “Mr. Excitement.”