Introduction to today's journey
EARTH is tilted some 23.5 degrees off its axis. This tilt creates the seasons, where the sun rises much higher during the summer than in the winter. In the areas around the north and south poles, the sun does not rise at all during the winter. The limits of these areas are known as the Arctic and Antarctic circles. At the Antarctic Circle, the midday sun during the winter solstice is right on the horizon. This causes a short midday twilight and complete darkness over the remaining 18 hours of the day. Midsummer on the other hand has the sun sitting on the horizon at midnight and above the horizon for the rest of the day resulting in perpetual daylight.
Today's journey takes us into Detaille Bay where we cross the Antarctic Circle making for one of the southernmost expedition cruises on the peninsula this summer. Here we stop whilst some of the bravest on the ship do a polar plunge in the freezing water. From there we head to a nearby anchorage point from where we commence our first kayaking expedition around the icebergs and making landfall on a flat iceberg to drink at an ice bar. A Zodiac boat picks us up returning us to the ship before we depart heading around the outside of Adelaide Island heading further south along the peninsula.
Today's Journey
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