Plan B

23rd January 2016 Part 2
So the revised plan for the morning came through, having arrived at the head of Flanders Bay we are going to take a zodic cruise at 12:00 noon.
Words can't do Flanders Bay justice, it's a spectacular place with high mountains covered in snow and ice. Right at the head of the bay is a glacier and they bay contains a lot of floating ice. From the rear of the boat we saw a Humpback whale. It was a little bit to far away to get a good look at, but we did see it's tale come out the water as it made a dive
From the zodiacs we saw a lot of Crabeater Seals resting on ice flows and a few swimming around. In the sunlight they looked like they were painted gold or silver. The first thing you need to know about Crabeater Seals is that they don't eat crabs, they eat krill! Their name probably was a mistranslation from Norwegian to English. As cold, windy and foggy it was this morning it was as beautiful in the bay this afternoon. There was not much wind and the sun felt really warm.
I'll just take this moment to say how well we are looked after. As well as the expedition staff who tell us about the different animals and go a shore with us, there is the ships staff running the ship and there is the "hotel" staff who prepare the food, serve the food, serve at the bar and clean our cabins. They also make sure with have tea and coffee available all day.
During lunch we saw a couple of really big icebergs pass close by, one of them must have been as big as the ship. We are so lucky to be able to experience this place, especially when you thing that relatively speaking timewise man only knew of this place recently (well only last 200 years). Plus it took a year just to get here.