We are still heading south on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula at this point in time. After lunch this day, we entered the Lemaire Channel. This channel was first sighted by explorers in 1873 and first charted and traversed in 1898. The channel is seven miles long and one mile wide. The weather was bad when we got here and kept getting worse as we made our way through the channel.

You can see the entry way to the Lemaire Channel in the first photo. It looked a bit ominous to me, but I wasn’t driving the ship, so we went ahead and entered the channel. But with all the icebergs blocking the channel, I was on deck and keeping a sharp eye.

Lemaire Channel was filled with icebergs and you can see why in the second photo. This second photo is the side of the channel and it’s solid glaciers that look to be calving with regularity. Our ship had to nudge its way through the ice and we could hear loud collision noises frequently as we hit these smaller icebergs.

The third photo was one of the more interesting looking icebergs in the channel. It’s a glacial iceberg that got top-heavy and rolled over. I was also impressed by how blue some of these bergs looked even under very grey weather conditions. You can also notice the front of our ship and see that we are not missing this iceberg by very much at all.