While this was our day to sleep in, it ended up as an early morning as we entered the Lemaire Channel about 5:45am and could hear the ship sailing through the ice. After hearing this continuously along with doors shutting, we decided to check what everyone was observing. We quickly dressed and flew up the stairs to the promenade deck to see breathtaking views of the one mile wide channel. It truly was a “Kodak Alley”. We are now on our second photo file for Antarctica. After breakfast, we headed out in the zodiac for the morning hike to see more Gentoo and Adelie penguins, blue-eyed shags, and southern polar skuas on Circumcision Bay, Petermann Island, discovered in 1873-74 by a German expedition. There was lots of snow and even a small waterfall cascading down the incline. Hard to believe that shortly in March, everything will be totally frozen, including the waters in the area around the island.