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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
View from the ship
This is the landing area at Neko Harbor, taken from the ship. One of the zodiacs is heading back to the beach, and if you zoom in, you can see the line of red jackets heading up the mountain to a viewing spot.
The Antarctic tourist regulations allow a maximum of 100 people ashore at one time; since there were 200 passengers on the ship, we were divided into six groups for zodiac boarding, and three groups at a time would be on shore. After an hour or ninety minutes, the first three groups would return to the ship and the other three groups would go ashore. (Which groups went first rotated every day.)
Since my group was going ashore later, I got to watch the first group from the ship.
I did not climb up that mountain by the way--much too steep and slippery. It would have taken all of the limited time on shore just to get my ass safely up to the top lookout and back down again, and I preferred staying closer to the beach where I could enjoy the glacier views and watch the penguins.
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