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Woke in the night, unnerved and had trouble sleeping, I think it was just the magnitude of crossing Drake’s Passage going so far from help. Had to get up to stop the beer rattling in the fridge! Day of naps between briefings, we went and organised our boots and learnt more about how to safely deploy into the zodiacs. Also listened to a good photography lecture, which will hopefully maximise my shots. We have had a pretty flat trip across and have discovered we are making good time, so there is a promise of a excursion to penguin island, which sounds great if we can. Everyone is very friendly and you sit where you like at meals so have already met Dutch, American & Australian on here with relatively few Brits. We will cross both the Polar front tonight (where sea temperature drops 4degrees and also the political line into Antarctica overnight. Other things I learnt today: Krill most plentiful animals in the world and feed the whole food chain. Penguins have long legs (just long bodies cover them).