So, It’s Christmas Day…Merry Christmas everyone. It was approx midnight when we got to bed last night. With the little wifi we could get, we were trying to update the blog and send Christmas messages. I think I mentioned in an earlier blog, that we were paying US$25 to get…
Catching up with and sorting out our blog hasn’t been easy. In the process we have mixed ourselves up as to who should have been writing on which day. Never mind, everyday has been covered. Zodiac Cruise We were very lucky to have 3 sunny and relatively mild days. Today…
Photos to follow Awake at 3.05am wondering if the alarm will go off at 6.30am! No sleep till it does. I don’t think we have had a decent full night’s sleep since we boarded. Anyway, at 6.30am the phone lit up, but no audible alarm. It seems the “don’t disturb”…
(By Jen) This morning we are at Damoy Point; another stunning location. Once again we haven’t been picked for snow shoeing. Kayaking didn’t happen yesterday afternoon, because of the choppy water, so that group took today’s spot, so kayaking wasn’t an opportunity either. After breakfast we were off in the…
On waking this morning at 6.30am the scene outside the window was surreal. It was as if we were in an icefield, Our destination Mudge Passage. A marine passage that took us into a bay, with the objective of exploring the ice flows for marine life. Seals, whales etc. It’s…
By Jen :- We have been travelling south all night and our destination is Detaille Island, where we are due to arrive at around 1400. Detaille Island is a small island at the end of the Arrowsmith Peninsula in Graham Land. From 1956 to 1959 is was home to “Base…
The weather yesterday was dark and brooding. Snowy mountains in the distance, in lines behind each other, like ghosts and barley discernible. Overnight we are headed for a new location and this morning, on pulling back the curtains, a whole new world and the very opposite of yesterday. Blue sky…
Awake at 4.15am to pee, and get a drink of water. They put salt in all the meals. There was no sleep after that. Daylight outside, but visibility about 100m. Bits of ice drifting by, but no sizeable icebergs, till around 7am. We must be getting close to the coast.…
The night was relatively calm. In fact at one point, around 1.30am, I woke to check the cricket score. As you do, and we were making normal speed, Kelvin tells me, 13.5knots. How does he know that?…:) The sea was calm, and we were sliding through it. There is a…
One small section of food available… So this morning a trip to reception to try and get some sort of connection. Once that was fixed, my message from last night, went, and I was also able to find the latest cricket score. New Zealand in a strong position. About time,…