This morning spent at Elephant Island, a wild and desolate rock in the northern part of the South Shetlands. It was snowing a blizzard when we got here and you could just about make out the glacier through the fog and the snow. The landing spot is a tiny piece of bare rock just below the cliffs. It’s hard to believe that 22 men spent 4 months here when they lost their ship, but that is what happened to Ernest Shackleton’s crew in 1916. How they didn’t go out of their minds is a miracle. We went for a Zodiac cruise and saw some chinstrap penguins clustered on the rocks. This afternoon we moved onto Gibbs Island, further down the chain of islands. The rocks and cliffs around the bay were covered with thousands of chinstraps. Saw a couple of leopard seals, although our boat didn’t see one catch and eat a penguin unlike some of the other zodiacs