When I woke up this morning, we were out of the Drake Passage and in the Antarctic waters. The ocean was much calmer and no more significant rocking.

The ship went through between the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and Joinville Island and into Weddell Sea. We saw a lot of ice burgs and glaciers. I couldn’t take any pictures, but we saw lots of penguins jumping out of the water too.

We made a brief stop near Devil Island, where the captain made an announcement that we were going to have a surprise zodiac tour this afternoon. We were on the second group to go and had some time, so we went to their submarine garage tour.

When we came back from the garage tour, the first group was still in the lounge in their full expedition gear. Then shortly after, there was an announcement that the zodiac tour was canceled, due to the wind getting stronger. Good thing we were on the second group! LOL

Tomorrow is when we actually start having zodiac tours and/or landings, subject to change depending on the weather condition, of course.