Morning brings us a beautiful last day in Antarctica


Morning brings us another beautiful day in Antarctica


Deborah boards a zodiac for Mikkelson Harbor


Whale bones are all that is left of Mikkelson's history as a whaling station


Along with the preserved remains of a water boat


Inspection of the bones revealed that this leviathan might have been an endangered blue whale, the largest of the animals.


Molting gentoos littered the beach of this Trinity Island harbor


Molting gentoos littered the beach of this Trinity Island harbor


Molting gentoos littered the beach of this Trinity Island harbor


The intrepid explorer puts her best foot forward


A weddel seal rests its head on a clump of ice


Just after this picture was taken, Russ of the Antarctic (left) took a real polar plunge and swam out to retrieve a drifting zodiac (and all the girls swooned)