Flying Over Drake ~ Antarctic Adventure Day 3

We were supposed to have an "Antarctic Diving" event yesterday, but this diving activity must be very demanding on the environment. It needs to be in a sheltered harbor, so the diving activity was rescheduled to today.

Speaking of this diving activity, I am actually very envious because I have seen the U disk that the ship sent to each tourist at the end. There are photos, videos and information about the entire Antarctic activity. I When I saw the videos and photos, I was very envious of those who were brave enough to dive, but I couldn’t swim and really didn’t have the courage. I always encouraged Sister Chen to participate in diving, and Sister Chen was finally moved by what I said, and she decided to go diving. , Xiao Lu helped her to be the first in line, and Sister Chen was doing preparatory activities in my cabin before diving.

 

Next is Xiao Lu. It’s not his first time to dive anyway. It is said that he persisted in swimming for 90 seconds after his last dive, which is really impressive.

 

After the first and second jumps, Sister Chen and Xiao Lu chased me to my cabin to encourage me to jump too. He said that you can jump even if you don’t know how to swim. Anyway, there are ropes tied to your body. The expedition members know that you can’t swim, so you jump. I will pull you up after you go down, but I thought it was too embarrassing in front of everyone, so I finally refused completely, so Xiao Lu called Zha Zhahui and asked him to jump too, and he finally made up his mind to jump. He came to me before going and asked me to take a photo of him. Zha Zhahui should be very lucky that he went diving, because his photo was later included in the entire promotional video, and most importantly, he He didn't give Lao Liu a chance to laugh at him.

 

This morning at the breakfast table, I sat at the breakfast table with Zha Zhahui and Lao Liu. I kept encouraging the hesitant Zha Zhahui to participate in diving, while Lao Liu was alarming and tried to prevent him from going diving. I said to Lao Liu, we can't After all, at such an old age, you must be fine at such a young age. In the end, Zha Zhahui decided not to go. If Xiao Lu hadn't come to persuade him again, he really wouldn't have jumped. And Lao Liu, go I quietly went to participate in diving, which later caused a public incident. I will report it in two days.

 

There were 132 tourists on the entire ship, and actually 42 people participated in the diving. They were really a group of brave people. The diving activity lasted all morning.

After lunch, cruise and land at Palavar Point. Palavar means "noisy chatter". You can imagine how many penguins there are here. Now is the growth stage of the little penguins, and parent-child scenes can be seen everywhere.

Penguins have their own road, which is called the Penguin Highway. When you encounter them driving on the highway, you must give them priority, so there are two highway police here.

 

My favorite Zodiac driver on the cruise this afternoon is Wayne is an Inuit who lives in the Arctic and is here to spend the summer in Antarctica. He drives the Zodiac without even wearing gloves. And because he is brave, he can take us to a more exciting place, which is very close to the glacier. In fact, this place is very dangerous. If the glacier pours into the sea, it will seriously overturn the kayak. It is a dangerous place. Of course it will look extra beautiful.

 

Continue to admire the very proud Antarctic animals.

 

In the afternoon, a group of baby killer whales came to the boat, and everyone ran out to take photos excitedly. Of course, these photos were not taken with my mobile phone.

 

Before dinner, a journey summary meeting was held in the main hall, and a retrospective film made by the ship was shown. This retrospective film used a lot of my photos, especially some of the photos at the beginning of departure, which may not be the best ones. But it must be the one with the most documentary significance; but I am still very proud, because in the previous daily summary meeting, the two photos I took on the first day were shared by the photographer, and she praised me severely Of the works, one is a landscape and the other is a figure. She took my mobile phone and transferred it directly. Of course, there must be many better photos than mine, but the photographer didn't see them.

 

Then everyone went to the deck to take a group photo. Another photo was taken by Lao Liu from our group.

Today is New Year's Eve, Beijing time, and dinner is more abundant. There is a waiter here who is very kind to me, because I was not feeling well when I boarded the ship on the first day and refused to ask for anything except a bowl of noodle soup. Eat, so he always remembers me, and when he sees me looking very happy eating, he recommends something to me that he thinks is delicious.

 

 

After dinner, there was a party in the main hall, but most of them were children singing. Sister Huang from our group made a stunning appearance and danced a song "Azalea" for them. The eldest brother from one of the groups also jumped in on a whim. Come and sing along.

 

I proposed a dumpling-making activity. In fact, it was mainly a Chinese New Year ceremony. There were not many people working, and there were quite a lot of troublemakers. They were mainly those who came to take pictures, especially the Shanghai aunties, who were very noisy; two Shanghai children ran When they came to be my apprentices, I asked them how they felt about Shanghainese being so noisy. The children said it was mainly Aunt Yangpu, haha.

 

Abbey also learned to wrap a few

In fact, the restaurant on the ship prepared dumplings for us, but I can’t praise the fillings. The ones we made ourselves were obviously much more delicious, but it was too difficult to cook the dumplings. There was only an electric oven with a pot but no lid, so it was basically hot. The dumplings are cooked, but they are still much more delicious than the dumplings made by foreigners.

 

The dumplings on the boat are steamed

 

I forgot to post a photo of the captain's cabin yesterday, so I'll add it today. The captain's chair is very special, and it feels like a high place. In fact, the captain is really the top leader on the ship. Even the ashtray is alone on the bow deck and cannot be used by others. of.

 

Our Antarctic journey is coming to an end and we will arrive at Whalers Bay tomorrow.