At Sea

I made a big mistake describing that iceberg C28B earlier today - obviously got it mixed up with another nearby.  In fact it is 31.45 kms long and 20.35 kms wide and the exposed area is 0.3 km deep.  This makes it an area of 640sq kms and it contains 176 trillion kgs or litres of water!  I didn’t do the math, it was explained in the briefing tonight.  The name refers to a number, apparently C28A is floating somewhere else and at a different speed.  

We reached Point Wild at 4 pm, and easy to see why it was so named.  Very beautiful, with a glacier but hardly any beach so almost impossible to land there or even take out the Zodiacs.  We did anchor for an hour or so and heard the story of how Shackleton had left his men there for a short time which ended up being about 6 months.  They did it tough, took 2 life boats to the narrow shore and made a hut out of the boats.  They ate seal and penguin and used used penguin feathers to line their boots for warmth.  The walls of the hut were sealed up with penguin guano and that created a little warmth.