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<\/a><\/p>\nAs did this spot.\u00a0 It’s amazing what those last rays of the day can do to enhance a photo!\u00a0 Impressive wall of ice here!<\/p>\n
One more shot of the peninsula since this cloud started dropping over the mountain top.<\/p>\n That was it for “the perfect Antarctic day”.\u00a0 We woke up the next morning to fully overcast skies.\u00a0 Our luck had run out.\u00a0 Still, the sights are beautiful, just not with the same level of clarity and the “blue” we have come to love in the glacial ice.\u00a0 As we neared King George Island we ran across yet another beautiful iceberg (are there ever ugly ones?).<\/p>\n Upon entering Admiralty Bay we ran across another rather unique (I know they are all unique, but how did this shape happen?) iceberg.\u00a0 Is it a bird?\u00a0 A plane?<\/p>\n There are several glaciers advancing into the bay.\u00a0 I was surprised with how tall this wall of glacial ice was despite there not being much of a mountain behind it.<\/p>\n It was cold again, so we were bundled up!<\/p>\n Admiralty Bay is home to several research stations.\u00a0 This one looked pretty high end compared to others.\u00a0 This is Carlini Base, another Argentine research station.<\/p>\n We only stayed in Admiralty Bay about an hour.\u00a0 Even if the sun had been out it wouldn’t have come close to the beauty of Paradise Bay.\u00a0 I know, we are spoiled!<\/p>\n One last look at this crazy iceberg.\u00a0 It could be a float in the Rose Parade!<\/p>\n From there we exited the bay and started heading north back across the Drake Passage.\u00a0 We were quite lucky as once again the seas were quite mild compared to what they can be.\u00a0 To wrap up our visit in Antarctica, Oceania was nice enough to create a map for reference.<\/p>\n On the downside, our Captain is either trying to save money on a port stop or is just extremely conservative, as we skipped our next port of Ushuaia due to it being a tad windy.\u00a0 He was nice enough to cruise by it so we could see what we were missing!\u00a0 Trust me, I was NOT happy!\u00a0 Missing port calls has become quite the aggravating trend with Oceania.<\/p>\n Ushuaia lays along the Beagle Channel, named after Charles Darwin’s voyage of discovery through the area in 1833 aboard HMS Beagle.<\/p>\n Despite my disappointment in missing Ushuaia, at least the channel views are excellent.<\/p>\n Shortly after passing Ushuaia we entered the famous “Glacier Alley”!\u00a0 The sun was popping in and out, making for excellent photos.<\/p>\n Several of these glaciers made it right down to the water.<\/p>\n Love the blue glacial ice!\u00a0 This is Glacier Italiano.\u00a0 A series of glaciers in the area are\u00a0 named after several European countries (including Hollanda and Francia).<\/p>\n A closeup of Italiano glacier.<\/p>\n Inside the Beagle Channel there are several sections where the glacial water pouring into the salt water creates this unique and very obvious dividing line.<\/p>\n All of these glaciers feed off of the massive Cordillera Darwin Icefield, one of the largest icefields in the Southern Hemisphere outside of Antarctica.\u00a0 This is Glacier Francia.\u00a0 As this glacier recedes the naturalists have discovered several fully loaded rifles dropped by the French in WWII.\u00a0 How they made it here from the Maginot Line is a mystery.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n