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Antarctica at Last - Npv. 16, 2019

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A little late posting today as we are quite a ways south and the Internet has been extremely slow. Course I also decided to post quite a few pictures but will also keep my verbiage to the minimum. Hopeful Bob. The photos I selected are to give you an idea of what the day was like, beginning with a photo from our patio when we first got up and continuing through the day. We were on a small island called Half-Moon Island which I think is done on purpose to give us a small taste of what Antarctica is like. We are definitely an iceberg water and while most of the burgs are white, every once in a while a beautiful blue one comes into view. One minute the sun can be out in the next the fog descends. The fog doesn't make it easy to take photos. Then the fog burns off and you get a scene like this which is our landing area. The shore is rocky and the snow has a particular color complements of all the penguins. Speaking of penguins, they are...