Hitchhikers

In the afternoon, after Danco Island, we cruised into Wilhelmina Bay which is a large bay on the Antarctic Peninsula.  The whole bay is surrounded by high mountains and high glacier walls.  There were hundreds of icebergs in the bay and we had a 360 degree beautiful view.  The weather and the sun came and went but the whole time here was great.

One common sight was hitchhikers on the icebergs.  Most of the time, they seemed oblivious to us until we got close to them.  At that point, they usually jumped off and went for a swim.  Icebergs give them a resting place where they won’t get eaten by an Orca.  These photos are a sequence of an iceberg with a few hitchhikers on it in Wilhelmina Bay.

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