"It has been pretty overcast today. We were mostly at sea and found ourselves looking for things to occupy our time... Of course the main thing to do is eat... We started off the mo ..."
"O mighty Drake's passage, all of last night you kept us awake, but know that tomorrow we shall be beyond your reach. All night, all day, the waves of the Drake's passa ..."
"I will endeavour to describe some of what we have seen, but photographs are really the best way to see what I am rambling on about. We weren´t sure if Antarctica would fulfil our e ..."
"We entered the Southern Ocean a few hours ago. AKA the Convergence Zone. The Drake Passage is the Drake Lake today. Sometimes, I'm told, it is the Drake Shake. When that happens, y ..."
"An entry I´ve been meaning to put together for a while, I`m going to update this space occasionally with new friends we´ve made and want to remember, some of the more memorable quo ..."
"Maybe we had found our sea legs, or were just lucky with the weather, but the thirty-hour crossing of the dreaded Drake Passage presented no problems, and early on Jan 3rd we awoke ..."
"Antarctica?! Joke. Here are some maps of my proposed route for you to gaze at longingly. Dates given are when my flights are currently scheduled but they could be liable to change. ..."
"I have officially arrived on the ice. What an amazing place! I have only been here a few hours and am already overwhelmed. Where do I start? First off, we left a cold, rainy, windy ..."
"It's true...it did not set in that we were actually going to Antarctica until that first slap of Arctic air! We arrived yesterday after a 5 hour flight on a C-17 (military cargo pl ..."
" Atop your crown, I looked upon your reach high up in the sky from where I could admire the heavens, your mountains, glaciers and ice sentinels guarding your shores. Through thi ..."