Flying Over Drake ~ Antarctic Adventure Day 2

We have arrived at Rockroy Port today, cruising and landing.

 

The cruise is actually a very fun thing. There are ten people in a group and one assault boat. The expedition team members are responsible for driving the assault boat and making some brief introductions. There will also be a team leader on each boat who is responsible for translating. Our own team leader Xiao Lu He has been to Antarctica for four seasons, more than once in each season, so he also knows some Antarctic knowledge. In this way, sometimes he can explain it to us without the expedition team members explaining it, so every time we go out as a team, I will try my best to have my group members on the same boat, and of course it is best if my group leader is also on the boat.

 

On the first afternoon of the cruise, because the expedition team member was a shy young man who didn’t like to talk, and the leader of the Shanghai group was his first time in Antarctica, his English was so-so. He didn’t even know how to speak whales. Even I was anxious to start. Introduce which cormorant is.

 

If cormorants stay there honestly, they look like penguins from a distance because they are also black and white, but cormorants can fly, so we jokingly call them "flying penguins."

I saw golden penguins yesterday, and today I saw chinstrap penguins. Chinstrap penguins are easy to recognize because they have a black strip under their necks, which looks like a hat strap. In fact, they should be called chinstrap penguins. Some places also call them police penguins, but they all wear hats anyway.

 

golden penguin

We still saw the lazy seals, which occasionally raised their heads, which gave us a lot of face.

 

penguin in water

And the occasional humpback whale

We are going to land on Goodir Island. There is a British scientific research station on this island. Before that, the staff of the British station came up to make some introductions. However, according to an insider, Xiao Lu, the elder sisters of the British station are actually Come on board to take a shower.

 

There is a small shop at the British station. If you have to live on the boat for a few days and eat and drink for free, you will find it difficult to spend money, so buying things is very attractive. There is a shop for less than ten people on the boat. Mi's small shop, and the opening time is uncertain. Even if it is open, it will close after opening for at most one hour. This obvious hunger marketing plays a very good role, so as soon as the small shop opens, it will be overcrowded, even like LVLuxury stores always have to wait in line to enter, but I never leave empty-handed every time I go there. Later, Sister Chen said that half of my suitcases were filled with penguins. I went home and took a group photo with them. .

 

Therefore, the small shop in the British station is also very popular, and they also have a small post office. Many people buy postcards, stamp them here and then send them out. The British are actually very bad. The Antarctic Convention clearly stipulates that Antarctica does not belong to any Countries, but usually the establishment of a post office in a place means that they think it belongs to their territory, but these are all in the fuzzy zone now, and their postcards have to be brought back to the UK and mailed again. I am not interested in this. I received it last time The postcard sent to Antarctica was about a year later.

 

 

There is also a small museum at the British station. It is a reproduction of some scenes when some of the earliest British scientists came here for scientific research. It is true that although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. It is obvious that the scientific research team members at that time were all men. There were large paintings in the bedroom. Beauties are basically Hollywood stars in the 1930s and 1940s. From this, I feel that stars should not be viewed through colored glasses. The role of spiritual encouragement they played in extraordinary times cannot be underestimated. The most ridiculous thing is that there is a painting on the opposite side of the toilet in the bathroom. Naked photos of beautiful women were discovered by Zha Zhahui.

 

During lunch, several of our group members sat together. It has been almost 10 days since we traveled together. We are already familiar with each other. Lao Song said that there is a hot water basin on the back deck. You know this? How funny it is to be said by a Northeastern person? It immediately reminded me of the booming bathing industry in Northeast China, so the SPA on the ship was just a hot water basin in Lao Song's eyes. Sister Huang and I immediately decided to go there in the afternoon Take a bath.

In the afternoon, our ship will pass through the Lima Waterway. The total length of the Lima Waterway is 11 kilometers, and its width is 1.6 kilometers. The narrowest part is only 800 meters wide. The path between the mountain peaks is very spectacular. While everyone ran to the front deck to look at the waterway, Sister Huang and I took a leisurely bath and took photos. In the ice and snow of Antarctica, accompanied by the snow-capped cliffs on both sides, we were in the world. On a well-known expedition cruise ship, there are scattered snowflakes in the sky, soaking in the warm water and admiring the beautiful scenery. It is really an unparalleled ultimate feeling. At this time, we are at the southernmost point of the world. I think this kind of life experience is perfect.

 

I have a very serious problem, that is, I will feel depressed immediately after feeling great happiness. This has happened since I was young. Whenever I feel a particularly prominent pleasure, I immediately become sad; I go back to the room. I took a nap, changed my clothes, and was supposed to go to the hall to listen to the lecture, but I went to the deck alone. I stood there feeling sad, watching the mountains and rivers pass by, watching the wind and clouds change, and I couldn't stop crying. There were some distant people. Peace emerges in front of my eyes. It turns out that even if I leave the pretentiousness in front of me, the distance is not just the fragrance of poetry. I am eager to leap forward in an instant. Is it at the end of this far-fetched world that the next life will change into wind, rain, mountains, and rivers? Don’t go back to the human world. I thought that I swore not to drink Meng Po soup, but now I am so eager to leave it all behind.

 

Liu, who was taking pictures on the deck, took a picture of my back. I knew better than to let myself sink in and rush back to the crowd.

Before eating, Xiao Lu also took me to visit the captain's cabin.

Today's dinner was a deck barbecue. Deck barbecue is said to be Quark's custom. Although the weather was a bit cold, everyone was in high spirits, drinking and eating meat, and they were all in a happy mood.

 

The activity after dinner was a quiz game. There was a game of passing the orange. Four women from our team came on stage. I made the last move. The first two links went smoothly, but when it came to the part where Sister Huang passed the ball to me, there were a lot of twists and turns. , I rubbed against Sister Huang’s chest for about two or three minutes, and almost gave up, but finally succeeded. Later, when I watched the video taken by my companion, I almost collapsed from laughing, it was so perverted! Whether it was the game session or the question and answer session, we lost to the children's team. We really have a bright future.

 

Tomorrow, we're going to Sylva Bay.

[Note: All photos you think were not taken by me were taken by other group members. Group members can upload their own photos to the computer on the ship every day. All uploaded photos are deemed to have given up copyright and portrait rights. 】