It was an exciting morning aboard National Geographic Explorer. Our first cruising destination was Deception Island where we maneuvered into the caldera of an active volcano and saw the landscape dusted with fresh snow. As commonly happens in expedition travel, plans changed when a breaching humpback whale appeared just outside of the caldera’s protective cove and we paused to watch the animal bound nearly a dozen times. Throughout the morning we sailed in search of tabular icebergs and porpoising penguins.
The afternoon offered even more exciting wildlife. Two humpbacks performed synchronized breaches against the blue sky backdrop and black-browed albatross soared by the bridge’s port side windows.
