Last night was the combined banquet to celebrate the marathon. The people from the Vavilov came over to the Ioffe, and we had a big cookout on the back deck. TONS of food, including chicken, steak, salmon, veggie burgers, and some pretty amazing banana dessert that I didn't even try to exercise restraint with. Also, two of our shipmates got married by the captain last night too. And two humpback whales put on quite a show for us right near the ship. Pretty amazing.
Well, we tried to have the kayak finals today, but after a bunch of getting dressed and into the zodiacs, we tooled around for a while as the winds kept picking up, but finally were cancelled due to high winds. Darn it! Our next chance that the two ships will be together is Friday morning, so maybe we'll race then.
This morning we went to went to Peterman Island. Gentoo penguins, distinguished by orange beaks and little white bonnets on top of their heads, were everywhere. After spending an hour or so on the island, we went cruising for a bit among icebergs and rocks. We saw four different leopard seals. The leopard seals hang out off shore, just waiting for penguins to venture out. One false move, and the penguin is lunch.
Tonight we're supposed to have a campout on the island here. We'll see how that goes--the wind keeps picking up, and weather can change from minute to minute.
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