At 15.00 we arrive in Telefon Bay, so called after the ship SS Telefon which stayed here for repairs after she struck a reef in Admiralty Bay in 1908. It is a new place for us, a moon-like landscape, mountains of dark lava rocks (some quite recent), craters within craters with small lakes at the bottom. We go ashore at 16.15, there are 4 seals as a welcoming comitee (actually, they don't care about us that much). It's possible to climb up the craters and walk around the hills (we choose the lowest one!).










On croise quelques manchots papous ici, dont ce petit groupe qui avait vraiment l'air de faire du bateau-stop!
We see a few Gentoo penguins, including this small group which really look like they were hitchhiking a ride to MS Fram!


18h retour à bord. Le soleil qui passe entre les nuages fait comme des pinceaux de lumières qui dansent sur les montagnes. Ça met un sommet en valeur, puis une vallée, puis un pic... C'est quand même très très beau. On est sur le pont cette fois pour la traversée dans l'autre sens et la sortie, juste derrière Le Boréal. Et voilà, c'était notre dernier débarquement, à la sortie on tourne à gauche et cap sur l'Amérique du Sud... On voit passer les derniers ilots, les derniers icebergs, pendant le "crew show" (spectacle de l'équipage philipins) au salon panoramique. Maintenant, à nous le Drake!
At 18.00 pm we are back on board and it's depature time. The sun comes in and out of the clouds, rays of light dance on the mountains, revealing a peak, a valley, a ridge... It is actually quite beautiful in the warm evening light. This time we are out on the deck for the sailing across the caldera, and we exit Deception Island, just behind Le Boreal. And that was it, our last landing, we turn left and to South America we go... We watch the last islands, the last icebergs, cruise by during the "crew show". And now, onto the Drake!








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