DAILY PROGRAM THURSDAY, 29.12.2016 HALF MOON ISLAND & WHALERS BAY 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 BUFFET 18:00 - 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 Today we plan to have two short carefully to the announcements and for your group to be called. landings, on Half Moon Island for the break time and for your PolarCirkleboat Cruise group A and Deception Island. We will group to be called. will be called after the last boat also have a kayak group and the group to go ashore. Geology Cruise with During the early afternoon we PolarCirkleboats. Please check will hold the lottery for camping, Approx. 16:45 PolarCirkleboat the lists on deck 4. time will be announced. Cruise group A. Please meet on deck 2 to dress in the regatta Important for both landings: 14.00 Polhøgda Camping briefing suits. Please listen to the Rubber boots are mandatory (weather permitting camping will announcements for exact timings. footwear. Return time to the ship take place on the night of 30th will be given ashore. December). Approx. 18:45 PolarCirkleboat Cruise group B. Please meet on 07:45 Kayakers, please meet at 14:45 Polhøgda Information deck 2 to dress in the regatta the reception ready to go. meeting PolarCirkelboat Geology suits. Please listen to the Cruise (Group A.B) announcements for exact timings. 08:00: We hope to do a landing at Please eat dinner before the tour. Half Moon Island, home to 15:00 Framheim/English Atle will tell us some tales of his 21:00 Panorama Lounge: Kayaking Adventures. Information about the plans for tomorrow. Approx. 16:30 We hope to do a landing at Whalers Bay on 22:00 Framheim/English Deception Island. Film: Dinner for one, 15 min We begin our landing by calling 22:00 Polhøgda/English with PolarCirkelboat cruisers group B, Norwegian subtitles chinstrap penguins. then boat group 3 and so on. Film: Grevinnen og Please listen carefully to the We begin our landing by calling Hovmesteren, 15 min announcements for the break time boat group 2 etc. Please listen Please turn page. It is a Norwegian tradition to Neptune’s Bellows. There is a decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be watch this film at Christmas, and rock in the middle just under the potentially dangerous in windy so we will on Fram! water and the area to one side is conditions. While walking inside, foul. Therefore the ship will have hold on to railings but not in door Half Moon Island is a two- merely 100 metres (330 feet) with frames. kilometre long (1.2 mile), which to navigate. crescent-shaped island in the shadow of the picturesque Once safely through the Bellows, mountains and glaciers of Whalers Bay will begin to appear nearby Livingston Island. It is a off the starboard side of the ship. favoured expedition stop for its large chinstrap penguin rookery. Other than a short hill, walking is generally easy. The serrated and crevassed cliffs are also home to Antarctic terns, kelp gulls, snowy sheathbills, and Wilson’s storm petrels. Landings are usually made on an easily accessible, wide beach where an abandoned dory lies decaying. Once up the hill, there are magnificent views of Livingston Island and humpback whales Whalers Bay was home to factory have been spotted breeching in whaling ships as early the water between the two as 1905 and a shore station islands. Down towards the named Hektor from 1912-1931 as western end of the beach is well as British Base B built in Teniente Camara station with its 1941. Both the base and station huge Argentine flags emblazoned were finally destroyed by a on the orange buildings. The mudslide during the 1967-69 station has been sporadically eruption along with a Chilean staffed in recent years due to the base farther down Port Foster in Argentine economy. This will be Pendulum Cove. Today there are our only opportunity to see two stations in operation, Spain’s chinstrap penguins in significant Gabriel de Castilla and numbers. Argentina’s Decepción. We would like to inform you that all stated times and activities are changeable due to weather A portion of the wall of the conditions, or other volcanic caldera of Deception circumstances out of our control. Island has collapsed, flooding the We kindly remind you to take interior and creating an amazing care walking around on the ship natural harbour known as Port while at sea. Especially venturing Foster. Access to the interior is out on deck, mind the signs for through the 200 metre-wide (660 warning of wet and slippery. Be feet) entrance known as aware the doors toward the outer Please turn page. .