Today we visited the currently largest iceberg in the world, A-68A. It is about 100km long and larger than Delaware. It broke off from the Larson C shelf a few years ago and was hanging out. It is a tabular ice burg that stretched from horizon to horizon. At first I thought it wasn’t very tall until I saw tiny fish jumping out of the water under it and realized they were penguins and it was HUGE. It was so large the mind cannot comprehend. It is at least 100ft above the water, 500 below. We motored for a few hours watching its’ majesty flow by. At one point it was the whole horizon. That afternoon we had a zodiac ride to Eden rocks. Never saw the rocks but saw beautiful sea ice with wildlife wandering around. The sky was grey with a teal stripe at the horizon, the ice bergs their full glowing blue, and their foot under the water a neon blue splash of color. It felt surreal, like we were living in a painting. Magical. We saw lots of penguin and a seal out for a lounge. Suddenly we had to flee, the sea ice had picked up speed and we’d be trapped in the cove if we didn’t leave immediately. Mad dash by all the zodiacs to the ship and we made it out! Later that night we were all called up to the back deck in our gear. They had hung a giant orange buoy to symbolize the sun. Then the ship geologist gave four champagne toasts: to the sun, to the Earth, the Earth’s tilt, and finally penguins! After that the music kicked on, it started snowing, and we all just danced. I have never experienced anything like that, the energy was great, we had a wonderful group of friends, snow, and the dance. Eventually we had to go in because the snow was so thick and they didn’t want us to fall off, and the party picked up again in the lounge. Matt and I danced till 1(yes Matt!!!) and that was our Solstice.