What a surreal day!

What a surreal day! Our second landing on the Antarctic continent is at Charcot Bay. A beautiful bay where we climb up a small hill. Beautiful sunshine, blue sky, a see without any waves and an incredible view all around. Sitting on the ridge we have another session annex workshop as part of our program “Leadership on the Edge”…And this edge is to be taken litterally this time. In the middle of this workshop, all of a sudden a cracking noise. Is it an avalanche? No, it is the breaking of an iceberg….the iceberg which is close to our ship and has at least twice the size of our ship! What a spectacular view! It never became dangerous for us or for the ship, except for some strong waves, but the event really gave all of us chicken skin. After class, back to the Zodiacs. Not in a normal way, however, but gliding down the snowy hill on our backs, backpack to the front, and off we went, about 50 meters downwards. What a thrill. Then in the afternoon, back on the ship, on our way to the camping site for tonight, we were pleasantly surprised with the presence of a pod of Orca’s, the killer whales. Even for the crew this was an usual happening, as they as well hurried out to the deck with their camarea’s to “catch” these creatures. We are lucky and blessed with the weather and the wildlife that we get to see. Let’s hope it will stay like this for another week. But, for tonight, camping night for half the team, a snowstorm is expcted….