The Lemaire Channel

-What did YOU do for new year's eve?
-Lemaire channel, like a dream

After we left Brown Station our Captain Larsen took us on a spectacular trip through the Lemaire Channel. The channel is only 900 feet wide at its narrowest point and surrounded by 3,000 ft. sheer cliffs and magnificent glaciers. We felt extraordinarily lucky to have had the opportunity to see it because it only recently become navigable because it is usually choked with ice.
As it was, the Captain dodged icebergs left and right. The scene was majestic, pristine and savagely beautiful. The ship's watercolor artist, Maria Coryell-Martin stood on deck and was painting and capturing the sculpted icebergs as we passed. 
The Lemaire Channel is only 7 miles long but it has some of the most beautiful landscapes anywhere in the world. It was another world as we traversed the calm and serene waters to the sounds of rumbling thunders of ice cracking.
All in all, it was surreal and a lovely way to end the day and the year.
CHAMPAGNE TIME! CHEERS, EVERYONE! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Someone is ready for some French champagne!!