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| Me trying on that immersion suit. People only knew me for a souple of hours and were already keen to get my mouth covered up ... |
We arrived Thursday evening on the JCR and other than a late
dinner, a few drinks at the bar and a good night sleep, nothing else was
planned. As people were supposed to leave the ship on Friday morning, we had to
share cabins which were crowded but no problem. On Friday morning (14/12/12) we
all met up to go through the safety briefing (how to behave on the ship in
general and what to do in an emergency – mustering, bringing and putting on the
survival suit and buoyancy aid and finally getting into the lifeboats). I was
the only one, who had not travelled on a research vessel before so I was the
lucky one to demonstrate how to put the survival suit on! Good fun though ;)
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| Magellanic Penguin hiding. |
After lunch 5 of us ventured outside to walk around for a
bit. And it was finally time for me to see real-life wild penguins!!!! People
who know me will probably be able to picture my excitement. Not constantly
jumping up and down was pure self-restraint. I of course took 1000s of
pictures. By the time we got back I was absolutely tired and it was soon time
for dinner. Tomorrow we would leave the Falklands and the journey to Antarctica
would carry on. I was hoping that the Drake’s passage would be kind to us as I
had no idea whether I would get seasick or not.
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| lonely Gentoo Penguin and my first penguin :) |
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| The JCR! (nooo, just kidding) |
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| Lots and lots and lots of Magellanic Penguins <(") |
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| Finally, the JCR ;) |
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