After lunch we took a short zodiac ride to Booth Island on our way to Port Charcot.  We were greeted at our landing point  by a
colony of gentoo penguins & some comorants.
The bay was named after Jean Baptiste Charcot who had over wintered here more than  a hundred years ago in the Antarctic Peninsula
and we wanted to have a look at the historic remains, including a magnetic observatory, entirely built of stones up on the cliff tops on one side
& a Cairn on the other side of the bay, (see photo above).

The bay below was densely packed with ice & on some of the bigger bergs a group of crabeater seals & a lone leopard seal stretched out
in the afternoon sunlight. Unfortunately for us up on the cliff tops above them, we were subjected to strong cold winds & deep snow.
This was probably the coldest we had experienced so far, with the added wind chill factor.