Yet another day's sail towards the final stop on this epic adventure, the Snares islands, and people are definitely going stir crazy again! The seas have been relatively calm, and enabled many to venture outside for bird photography and some fresh air. We missed the Snares on the way down due to the excessive turbulence, and it was no guarantee that the zodiac cruising would go ahead.
However at 0630 we got the wake up call to man the zodiacs for a pre-breakfast cruise along the rugged muscovite granite rocks which are the Snares. At least, most of us heard the call. I didn't! So a very disappointed geologist was left to forlornly watch the zodiacs cruise along the shoreline, looking for the endemic Snares crested penguins, whilst she practiced her bird photography on the wheeling Albatross and sooty shearwaters (I did mention bird nerd!).
Highlight of the day as we left the shelter of the Snares to head home to the port of Bluff were a pod of around six orcas or killer whales swimming right alongside the ship, weaving under and across and playing with us for around an hour or so! Makes everything worth it!
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