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PROGRAM FRIDAY, 30.12.2016 – CUVERVILLE & NEKO
OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 BBQ (Deck 7) 18:00 - 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4
Today we plan to have two ashore for the landing after the you to be called. We will meet at landings, in Cuverville Island and cruise. We will call you after the the reception. Neko Harbour. We will also have last boat group (group 3). two kayak groups and four PolarCirkleboat groups. Please Approx. 08:15 Kayakers A Please check the lists on deck 4. listen to the announce-ments for you to be called. We will meet at Important for both landings: the reception. Rubber boots are mandatory footwear. Return time to the ship Approx. 08:00: We hope to do a landing at Cuverville Island. will be given ashore. We begin our landing by calling Afternoon: We hope to do a PolarCirkleboat Cruise goup B landing at Neko Harbour. and then boat group 4 and so on.
Please listen then for the break We begin our landing by calling time. Listen carefully for the PolarCirkleboat Cruise group D, announce-ments for your group to the Campers, followed by boat be called. Please do not approach group 5. Please listen then for the deck 2 until your group is called. break time. Listen carefully for
the announcements for your 08:00 Framheim: Information 10:30 PolarCirkleboat Cruise group to be called. Please do not meeting PolarCirkelboat Cruise group B. Please meet on deck 2 to approach deck 2 until your group (Group A, B, C, D). dress in the regatta suits. Please is called. listen to the announce-ments for PolarCirkleboat Cruise goup A exact timings. will go cruising directly after the meeting. You will go Afternoon (Time will be Afternoon (time will be announced) Kayakers B Please announced) PolarCirkleboat listen to the announce-ments for Cruise group C. Please turn the page.
Please meet on deck 2 to dress in expedition and named for The bay is splendidly scenic and the regatta suits. Please listen to Professor Léo Errera of the fills with castellated icebergs and the announcements for exact University of Brussels, a wildlife in the long days of the timings. You will go ashore for benefactor of the voyage. Errera summer. Nestled at the bottom of normal landing after the cruise. is home to Danco and Cuverville the bay is Neko Harbour, named We will call you after the last Islands. for a whaling ship which boat group (group 4). anchored there in the early Cuverville Island supports one 1900’s. It is one of the rare places Afternoon (time will be of the largest known gentoo in the Antarctic Peninsula area announced) PolarCirkleboat penguin colonies. This can be where one can come ashore on Cruise group D. Please meet on apparent from miles away given the Antarctic mainland. Hike up deck 2 to dress in the regatta the right wind direction. Early in the hill to the penguin rookery suits. Please listen to the the season, snow cover impedes and an amazing view of Andvord announcements for exact timings. but doesn’t stop penguins Bay but do not continue onto the You will go ashore for normal accessing their nests and an glacier as it is heavily crevassed. landing before the cruise start. intricate network of “penguin The glacier across the tiny highways” is carved into the harbour is very active and creates Evening / Campers: We hope to snow. The shallow waters very impressive but dangerous arrange a camp at Damoy Point. between Cuverville and Rongé waves when it calves – please Kindly listen to the islands often trap and ground stay off the beach. announcement for when to go icebergs. This makes for superb ashore. Please eat your dinner ship-cruising through the channel. We would like to inform you that all early. We aim to take you ashore Up from the rookery at stated times and activities are at 20:30. Cuverville, steep cliffs lead to the changeable due to weather island top. These cliffs should be conditions, or other circumstances 21:00 Framheim / English avoided so as not to damage the out of our control. We kindly remind Information about the landing you to take care walking around on mosses and lichens that grow the ship while at sea. Especially tomorrow. there. The cliffs are also home to skuas that are vigorous in 21:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch defending their well-hidden nests. Informationen über unsere Anlandung Morgen.
venturing out on deck, mind the signs for warning of wet and slippery. Be aware the doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be potentially dangerous in windy conditions. While walking inside, hold on to railings but not in door
frames.
Andvord Bay penetrates deep into the Antarctic Peninsula; from The Errera Channel is a scenic, here the Weddell Sea side is a narrow waterway between Rongé mere fifty kilometres (30 miles) Island and the Arctowski away. Once inside the bay, one is Peninsula on the mainland. It was surrounded on all sides by the discovered by the Belgica mountains and alpine glaciers of the peninsula. Please turn the page.