No prizes for guessing that the name of this island had something to do with the elephant seals. It was calm enough to be able to go out on the Zodiacs and as it was a sunny day it wasn't too cold - even though it was still around zero degrees. It was the calmest conditions our expedition leader has ever seen in his 7 years of coming to Antarctica at that particular spot - normally they can't get off onto the Zodiacs.
We cruised around some rocks with penguins and then checked out the area of land that Shackleton’s men spent 4.5 months waiting to be rescued - it isn't much area! There is now a bust for the Chilean captain of the boat who came to do the rescue. (If you don’t know about Shackleton a quick google search will fix that. He was an adventurer whose ship sunk in the ice in 1911 and then there was an epic journey over land and sea to get back to civilisation)
Next to the beach is a glacier that we had a good look at - then went to see a leopard seal some other boats spotted but it was gone by the time we arrived.
After we were back on board we went straight to the bow of the boat whilst the captain circled an iceberg that had some penguins on. Whilst we were watching a big wave washed some of them off! Very funny.
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