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Antarctica
Travel Blogs from Antarctica
Our Antarctic Dream Comes True
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 271 Temperature : Freezing!! Weather : Sunshine morning and cloudy afternoon Antarctica Day Five - Curveville Island, Neko Harbour, Zodiac Cruise and Chilean Base This was the Antarctica that we ordered!!! We woke up to the most ...
Change of Scenery Once Again
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 274 Temperature : 3 degrees Weather : Overcast Antarctica Day Eight - Deception Island It was our last day in Antarctica and we had returned to the South Shetland Islands once again, this time to Deception Island. The landscape had ...
Passport Stamps and Whale Watching
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 273 Temperature : 3 Degrees Weather : Some sunshine Antarctica Day Seven - Port Lockroy and Whale Watching On Day Seven of our Antarctica expedition we woke up to much better weather. There wasn't a bright blue sky but there were ...
The South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 270 Temperature : 3 degrees Weather : Cloudy Antarctica Day Four – Aitcho Island and Half Moon Island The first thing that was evident upon waking up was that our little ship wasn't rolling around from side to side, or ...
Probably the best hot springs ever..........
This is a top pick! Set the alarm for 3am for sunrise but it is cloudy outside so we go back to bed. We are woken by the bing bong of the PA system at 7.30am for breakfast and it is still cloudy and a bit snowy. We have arrived at Deception Island. Curious name and ...
Probably the best Drake Passage crossing ever.....
This is a top pick! ... been my most positive ever. I struggle to find a way to suggest to improve the trip and can only suggest letting the crew experience Antarctica more than they did (one group got a chance to go on land). Then Oscar, one of the staff, hosts an charity ...
The Weather Closes In
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 272 Temperature : Freezing! Weather : Snowing and windy Antarctica Day Six - Petermen Island Day six in Antarctica started off well with a stop at Petermen Island in the morning. As the zodiacs approached the island the broken ice ...
NationalGeographic.com chose one of my photos!!
This is a top pick! I'm jumping ahead here a bit to a story from Antarctica, but I need your help. There was a guy named Ross from NationalGeographic.com on our ship (he was just on vacation). At the end of the expedition, we all shared our best photos with ...
Who´s Who, Quotable Quotes, and Trip Highlights
This is a top pick! ... - Baños, Ecuador 5. Las Ruinas - Vilcabamba, Ecuador 6. Koala Hostal - Potosi, Bolivia 7. Refugio - Puerto Madryn 8. Antarctica - Ushuaia 9. Sandanzas - Buenos Aires 10. Stoneofabeach - Copacabana, Rio, Brazil 11. Pousada Terra Nossa - Pelorinho, ...
Antarctica Day3 - Drake's Passage
This is a top pick! ... 15h00 third lecture (i.e. Zodiak landing explanations) Or 14h-18h landing 16h00 Tea and cakes 17h00 4th lecture (i.e. Antarctica historic tales) 19h00 Dinner 20h45 Movie This schedule is pretty good as it gives us time ...
Probably the luckiest people in the world.........
This is a top pick! ... tuxedo or ball gown for tonight´s Captain´s dinner. We put on clean t-shirts. This is preceded by a welcome to Antarctica champagne reception and an introduction by the Captain. Is an amusing and friendly chap and looks just like Captain Birdseye. ...
Inclement Weather on the White Continent
This is a top pick! ... plying back and forth carrying fourteen people at a time. The Marco Polo follows the guidelines of IAATO (International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators) and allows only 100 people on shore for an hour at a time, with one naturalist guide for ...
Antarctica Day2 - Drake's Passage
This is a top pick! ... to break the iceJ . Day 2 is typically a day of travel, lectures and slowly preparing our arrival to Antarctica. We have started to see magnificent birds, such as Albatrosses. The Albatross is the widest bird in the world ...
Manuel and the Hoochy Coochy
This is a top pick! ... stern, searching for a guilty face. "You think one pebble will not matter?" A pause. "Twenty-four thousand visitors came to Antarctica last year. If each person took ONE PEBBLE, what would happen to the beach! What would happen to the penguins! Do not ...
God Jul / Frohe Weihnachten / Feliz Navidad
This is a top pick! God Jul / Frohe Weihnachten / Feliz Navidad / Happy Christmas I've never had a Christmas Eve like this one. A morning landing in Admiralty Bay, a meeting of the penguins, a talk with Mario, who is stationed at Poland's Arctowski station for the next ...
Glissading in Paradise
This is a top pick! ... out," Ross laughed. "I walked to where the children were making a snowman and sunk, three feet down." Ah, summer in Antarctica. The sun kept shining. Everybody back on board, move on. Announcement: we will anchor overnight at Leith Cove. Dinner ...
Will we, won´t we?
This is a top pick! ... imagine. Briefing on Brown Bluff (63 degrees 32´S, 56 degrees 55, W) our intended first, and possibly last, landing on Antarctica. Ice-capped flat topped mountain, 745m with a prominent cliff of reddish brown volcanic rock on the north face 9 miles ...
Beam me up, Scotty
This is a top pick! The rolling woke me up at 3 AM. The sun outside revealed the waves. Waves, and nothing but. I reached for the wristbands, pulled the covers up. I woke at 5, and then again at 7. The ship was rolling, swaying, natural for open waters, not natural for a ...
Antarctica Day5 - Deception Island and around
This is a top pick! ... rocky boat. Pretty unusual for the protected location we are, but this is Antarctica and everything is possible. It was not even 8h00 this morning ...
Antarctica Day6 - Danco Island
This is a top pick! ... reflection. Later some sent, at the British station of Port Lockory, post cards from Antarctica to the world. The station is overrun by penguins and the rule of 5m is impossible ...
Christmas Eve with Evie
This is a top pick! ... boots. Into the next room, blop blop blop blop. I was handed a life jacket, helped to adjust it over my Nordic blue Antarctica Voyage of Discovery waterproof, windproof parka. Then fumble through all the layers to find my ID card. Beep, scan me through, ...
Probably the best sunset ever..............
This is a top pick! Back on board we celebrate our landing with a bottle of champagne and then have dinner. As we chat with our fellow passengers we notice the sky outside and reflections are turning fantastic reds and oranges and later we witness a fantastic sunset with ...
Probably the coolest animal in the world..........
This is a top pick! Paulet Island (63 degrees, 35 ´S and 55 degrees 47´W) Circular Island 1 mile diameter and 3 miles SE of Dundee island off NE Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by British Expedition by Ross 1839-43 named by him after Rt Hon Lord George Paulet. On ...
Antarctica Day7 - Lemaire Channel
This is a top pick! ... and the main land below the Antarctica circle (below 66 degrees south) could then reach above zero temperatures. Antarctica receives 5 cm of snow per year. This is very little in comparison with other places in the ...
Antarctica Day8 - Paradise Bay
This is a top pick! ... for example, where I was just a few months ago. As everything was reddish and yellowish in the Arizona desert, here in Antarctica everything is white. We were fortunate enough to have 5 superb sunny days (which is very unusual) and so I have ...
65.9 Degrees South - Our Most Southerly Point.
This is a top pick! ... cruise a bitter wind whipped the water into chop and cold spray splashing all, so the boats headed in. In Antarctica winds are continually revolving the continent and can arrive at any location with limited warning. (known as Catatonic ...
Probably the best landing ever..........
This is a top pick! ... of newspapers when the Duke of Edinburgh visited and telegram messages. It is fascinating to see it all. Yet another side to Antarctica. We manage to stop ourselves buying anything in possibly the remotest shop in the world as it is not the cheapest ...
Why Antarctica - Why Not! - First Landing.
This is a top pick! ... recognized worldwide as an authority on penguins. Scott is a Historian and his lectures on the historical figures who ventured into Antarctica were amazing. John, one of the expedition leaders has more than 80 Antarctica trips to his credit' but ...
From the Bridge
This is a top pick! ... Parker's lecture today. Alan has made 56 trips to Antarctica, been awarded a Polar Medal for his contributions to science in Antarctica, and even has a mountain named for him! Parker's Peak. A native of Australia, he has lived on Macquarrie Island for a ...
ANTARCTICA - NIRVANA OF MY ADVENTURE
This is a top pick! Only through the means of unconscious images and ideas can I dare attempt to share the influence you have imprinted on my soul, for there is no word that can justly explain your truth and power. As a young bee flying above a field of ...