Work early and looked out of my cabin window at the wonderful view of Gold Bay. It was simply to gorgeous to stay in bed so I donned my multi layers and ventured onto deck. We left the bay around 6am and the ship chugged along the coast to another splendid location, Cooper bay. As we travelled Icebergs were becoming more and more frequent, and not just little ones, but big Tabular ones. The bay was the location of another Penguin colony, this time Macaroni ones. They nest on cliffs, so up we climbed for a wonderful view over the whole colony. The location was stunning and the weather sublime. It was so good the captain agreed we could take a cruise up Drygalski Fjord. And thank goodness we did. It was simply stunning. A tremendous stretch of water leading up to a vast wall of ice, at the end of a massive glacier. All around mountains soared to tremendous heights with snow capped peaks visible far far above. As we made our way up the channel Albatross’s soared over the ship showing how graceful and elegant flight can be. It must be one of the most beautiful places on the planet and one of the most inaccessible. And there was more to come. As we left the fjord a vast table of ice lay ahead. Apparently is was one of the fragments from the vast B15 ice sheet which broke away from the Ross ice shelf, the other side of Antarctica in 2000. As we went around it the captain measured this ice berg as 36m high and 10km long. It’s presence revealed the reason for all the smaller bergs we had been seeing on the way down. As we got nearer it became more beautiful with the ice turning a brilliant sapphire blue as it meet the water. We left Cape Disappointment anything but. It may have been disappointing to James Cook, who thought he had found a new continent but South Gerogia has been a thrilling experience to all of us on the ship. We set course for South West, next stop Antarctica.