So we are heading to the Belleny Islands, with a full day at sea. The fog and snow reduced visibility making a whale sighting difficult to photograph. Instead I did a lot of picture sorting, blog writing and went to another excellent lecture by Natalie about moving the Halley VI station.

Time for afternoon tea, a photography session for our new New Zealand friends, and dinner. The days excitement peaked with a pod of humpbacked whales around the ship in front of our dining table ! I quickly excused myself and got these images……pretty pleased 😁

First sighting
One readying to dive
Going
Going
Gone !

It appeared to be a pod of at least 3, if not 5 individuals spread out.

And another sounding
Beautiful tail fluke

As a special treat one rolled one to feed, showing their knobbly snout.

Ribbed underbelly showing on left.

What a dinner treat. An early bed for us tonight, our Zodiac ride is a 7:10am, it’s probably going to be a bit cold, and wet !