This was the first landing on Elephant island for our ship in ten years! Ii understand the statistics are something in the neighborhood of 30000 touists and 175 actually set foot on this island per annum. Maybe we should all buy lottery tickets? Perhaps this is our win! The skies were a crisp blue and the temps were 32 degrees. We were warned that the team would try and they were hopeful, but they had bend hopeful before. If we heard we were to wear boots for a wet landing it would mean that they would try. Well, we were the second zodiac group, so things could get worse for us after 90 minutes. doug and I looked out our window at where Shackleton landed and saw no one landing, so we had our hopes dampened. What we didn't know was that the landing was on the other side.

Folks came in from the first zodiac all smiles and said this wasn't one to be missed. We not only landed, but we saw a glacier calving, an iceberg splitting, chinstraps jumping up icebergs, and two humpback whales. What a day! Now we are off for Antarctica.