Icebergs, glaciers, whales, a ship wreck from 1915, a Crabeater seal, and Lichen welcomed us this morning on our zodiac cruise in Wilhelmina Bay.
A crabeater seal on a gorgeous iceberg. The bluer the iceberg, the older the ice. This is the Governoren ship in the middle—two other ships are viewing it on either side. In January 1915, the crew was celebrating another successful whaling trip below deck. Someone (probably partying too much), knocked a lamp off the table and the ship went up in flames. Remember what this ship did? Whaling. They had thousands of gallons of whale oil aboard. All men aboard were saved but the ship remains exactly where it went up in flames.
The brownish – rust stuff is Lichen (pronounced Like In), a complex life form that results due to a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga. Here is the poem—Fred Fungus met Alice Algae and they took a Lichen to each other 💚
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