64d 53m 24.5s S, 62d 51m 47.6s W (WP134)

Today was a day of magnificent scenery. Predawn had superb lighting (along Gerlache Strait) and each way you look ed you saw new shapes. The day remained moderately cold (at +5deg C) all day. It was a day of “white cold magnificence.”

We ended the day’s festivities with a picnic out on the stern deck of the Polar Pioneer, including ice cream. It was stunning as the sun set, casting its colours along Argentine base Brown. Three hundred and sixty degrees of beauty.