Weddell Sea - Killer Whales and Ice Bergs

 "The Weddell Sea is, according to the testimony of all who have sailed through its berg-filled waters, the most treacherous and dismal region on earth". Thomas R. Henry

The weather was predicted to continue to be stormy on the west side of the Antarctica Peninsula. So, throughout the night, we headed north then east between the Trinity Peninsula and Joinville Island into the Weddell Sea.  The Weddell Sea is where Shackleton's ship Endurance, famously drifted for 9 months, over 1,200 miles, while locked in ice, before it was crushed and sunk.

We were escorted into the the Erebus and Terror Gulf of the Weddell Sea by a large pod of Killer Whales (our PhD whale expert said they are Killer Whales, not Orcas.)

Not wanting to disturb the whales, the ship stopped and drifted as we watched them from afar.

OK, if you can't have too many mountain and penguin pictures, that must mean you can't have too many ice berg pictures - right? Really, this is a small sampling. The temperature was in the 60s with the breeze. I sat out of the wind, on my deck, in my tee and tights, with a cup of coffee and, clicked away.