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The 7th Continent

Summertime in Antarctica reveals a terrain of great variety: rocks, mud, snow and ice.

Of course the landscape is covered with native animals. A variety of penguins abounds, along with seals, seal lions, birds and whales at sea.

We were fortunate enough to be able to sail into areas that have not been accessible for years. Thank you global climate change! The sights were amazing, including an afternoon on an ice floe. These pictures cannot do true justice to the beauty of Antarctica.

Antarctica

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Our ship for the next 12 days

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Our shipboard room

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The view from our veranda

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Zodiac boat used to travel to and from the ship

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Our regular excursion “uniform"

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Approaching our first landing

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Summer—not all ice and snow

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Coming in for our second landing

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Always plenty of penguins

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And they leave VERY smelly guano

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Glaciers

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Hiking over the snow and ice fields

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Zipping around the bay

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Local residents

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Typically amazing!

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It is real

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Unlike penguins, never too many to see

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Third landing—more penguins, anyone?

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Comparatively warm summer day

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Glacial remnants

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Fourth landing—a hike to the top

View from the top

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Day five, sailing around in the Zodiacs

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More locals

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Predators and prey together

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Table top glaciers

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On an ice flow in the middle of the sea!

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The sea around us

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Our sixth landing, with company already on shore

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Dead whale vertebra on shore

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Far from most everywhere

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