Antarctica!!!!

Hey from down below!!!
Well we are in Antarctica now and in our base camp. It is pretty warm in here though the outside air is soooo cold!!! It is about -27 outside and everything is obviously ice. We arrived here about 10am this morning and it was at the hottest point of the day -20! Yeh so hot! We have a very cosy camp and we have 3 tour guides with us. Their names are Rob, Jenny and James. They are all very nice and before took us around Antarctica on a sled led by huskies, I will tell you about that next. Phoeb's and I have to share a bunk in a separate part of the camp to the others because of the lack of space. The bunks are very comfortable though.
Anyway onto the trek. We headed out at around 11:30 and Phoebe and I were kind of worried we would fall down a cravasses or something but Jenny told us not to worry. After about 30mins we saw some emperor penguins!!! They were beautiful. They were yellow, orange, white, black and had a bit of red. They also had some cute, fluffy babies!!! Jenny went closer for us and got some pictures. Then she got some of the landscape, cliff edges, and icebergs. We then moved over to one of the cliff edges and had a brilliant look at some whales and there babies, which are known as calfs. The were so graceful. We also got some brill photos of them too. We then went on and Jenny taught us how to tell the huskies what to do. 'Mush' means go, and you just really have to say'wohhh' to stop them. That was all we learnt though.
She then taught us a bit about antarctica. She said that Antarctica was actually 98% ice and snow and 2% percent of rock. She then said it was supriseingly the driest contenant on earth and was sometimes known as a dessert! It is the 5th largest of the 7 contenants on earth and was found in 1820 by Captain John Davis. It has 90% of the worlds ice and holds between 60-70% of our fresh water! The animals on antarctica include wide varieties of fish, whales, seals, arctic terns sharks and penguins.
Well after our lesson on Antarctica we then headed on to find....yes, seals!!! Jenny said Antarctica has 6 species of seals including fur seals, crabeater seals, elephant seals, leopard seals, Ross seals and Weddel seals. My favourite is the fur seals and to our surprise that is the breed we had just encotoured. There was also elephant seals not far from them. The fur seals were incredible and extremely cute! Phoebe and I were jumping up and down at the spot whenever we caught a glance of the babies. They did actually have a lot of fur and were rather petite. We got some incredidble photos of them and one inperticular photo of a baby holding it's nose that was soooo cute!!! We then moved onto the elephant seals, now they were a different story. They were absoloutly massive especially the males!! And they weren't exactly what you call cute but if you looked close enough they were in their own way!!
Jenny then said it was time to hed home, else the dark would kick in and it would be unbarably cold.
It took us around 1hr-1 and a 1/2 hrs. And when we were back at the camp we told Rob and James all about our trek and what we had learned. They were rather impressed that we took all of it in! We the had dinner of pasta with a tomato sauce. We talked for a while and then me and Pheobe decided to pack for tommorow seen as though we were leaving at 10am!!!
We are heading to New Zealand tommorow so that should also be as fun as everywhere else has been! I will put the photos of here on another post to save space hope you like them.
Cya tommorow,
Monica xo