Last sunny day …

We didn’t think we would have another day of good weather before we leave but today, our final Saturday in Jubany, was it! Glorious sunshine and the caleta like a millpond in the morning, gunshot cracking of ice and huge chunks of ice plunging to the water below. I had a final walk along the beach towards the glacier, still amazed at how different the landscape is with so little snow left. By lunchtime the wind had picked up and the caleta was quite choppy but we also revisited our nearby field sites, walking along the beach past penguins and seals and up over the ridges to the lakes which have now all melted. The whole landscape looks very different without a covering of snow and ice and we could see how lucky we were to have completed our work here before the ice melted.

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