Orne Harbor – Jan. 5th (Afternoon)

In the afternoon we went to Orne Harbor.  Our luck wore out by then and we finally had some proper Antarctic weather.  I had wanted to do the landing first and then skip the zodiac cruise, but my friend forgot his sunglasses and by the time he retrieved them, all the landing spots were taken so we ended up doing the zodiac cruise first.  It was pretty miserable.  We spent the first hour just cruising around in the cold and wind, but then we saw some whales and spent the rest of the time following them.  The weather didn’t improve much once we got to land, but we braved it anyway.  There was a chinstrap penguin colony at the top of the hill so we had to see that.  It was quite a climb since the wind was so strong.  We made it up the hill and the wind was so strong it was almost blowing us over.  We saw our last bit of penguins and headed down the hill.