The current 2023 trip, has been a long time in the planning. Myself and 3 mates are heading for Antarctica and South America.
Posts in reverse order below.
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Disembarkation day. A great night last night. Up early to see the last vestiges of the Beagle Channel, pulling into Ushuaia as we awoke at 5:59. Finalised the last of packing and watched us do a 360 turn to pull in to the wharf at Ushuaia. We met for last breakfast at 6.30 and were…
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Last day today before disembarking tomorrow. 😦 Normal procedure this morning with the addition of the dreaded task of packing. Breakfast – last leisurely one. A talk by Jonathan this morning about his involvement in the 1988 bicentennial expedition to climb Mt Minto one of the unclimbed mountains of Antarctica. This was followed by a…
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Well what a day. Up and at em a little later as our proposed landing today was forecast to be windy early but easing. As the day started it became evident that we were in for a pearler. The ship had eased along around the West Falklands to an island at its west called West…
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Overnight cruising around the Falklands from Stanley over the top of the Falklands to West Falklands. The morning wake up call at 6.30 has us on plan to arrive at the privately owned Carcass Island. The E Team had to go ashore to talk to the owners about what the options are given pretty ordinary…
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Awoke feeling very ordinary at 2.30, noticed a glow on the horizon, wondered about Aurora but no colour. Steve woke a little later and had a look also. No idea what it was. Then it was back to sleep after a while. And awoken by Howard’s announcement at 6.30 that we were nearing the Falklands…
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Same, same today. Slept well, awoke early, ship still rocking and rolling. Watched the clouds colouring a little out the cabin window. Then watched a fascinating doco on UKTV on the making of a mattress, then Father Brown sucked us in before breaky. Met Mark and Dianne from Adelaide (the COVID couple) and chatted for…
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Awoke early to a little colour on the clouds, so I grabbed the camera and went upstairs. Well worth the effort, plenty of birds and a pretty good sunrise too. I returned to cabin for a shower and grabbed the zoom lens to chase some bird shots. There were big flocks of birds flying or…
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Big waves today but we have turned West into them. I have some videos which I hope captures the movement of ship. (Just haven’t worked out how to upload them to blog) Another sea day. Leo lecture today ‘Mummified crabeater seals on the Antarctic Peninsula’ quite interesting that these seals are stranding in high dry…
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Day at sea today. Quite rocky and rolling overnight. Felt a bit average. Woke up too early. The sun was up and shining bright. It is still two hours till breaky. So watched some TV and slept a bit. Forced in some breaky and managed to download my 3000 pics from yesterday and start sorting…
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Wow, what a day! The contrast between the sea fog and overcast and grey skies of yesterday and today with blue skies and clear day is stark. South Georgia was appearing before us in the early morning as we sailed towards the Island and along the coast to find a sheltered landing. While on deck…
Travel adventures with Nicola & co. 