Our expedition cruise continued today on the open ocean towards Elephant Island. The sea has been angrier today than yesterday, and I skipped lunch and dinner rather than risking a repeat of my first day at sea. On days with no shore excursions, the staff gives presentations on topics aligned with their expertise. Today’s topics included “Penguin Evolution and Ecology” and “Wonders of Ice.” Later, we watched “Endurance,” a National Geographic documentary about the expedition to locate Shackleton’s lost ship at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. Saunders Carmichael-Brown, one of our expedition leaders, was the shooting producer and media manager on that expedition. He is also a descendant of a member of the Ross Sea Party, the expedition team waiting on the other side of Antarctica for Shackleton.

This photo was screen-grabbed from the National Geographic website.