**Nope. It’s to Christmas again. I’m still posting from my Antarctica Adventure. I’m just doing it day by day, like I wrote it on the OT, so’s not to overwhelm you. Read on. It’s probably safe to say no one has had a Christmas quite like ours. We woke up bright and early (of course,…
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Thar She Blows… And Thar! And Thar! 12/23
From Deception Island, we sailed pretty much straight south. We were anticipating an uneventful passage, but literally ten minutes after our French scientist, Bertrand, took the helm, he shouted, “Whales!!” We could see a couple of water spouts about 1K away. Then they were closer. Then there were a couple more. Pretty soon, we were…
Two Days of Deception 12/22
Another seven hours of sailing brought us to Deception Island, which I keep thinking is the name of a Leonardo di Caprio movie. It’s interesting how late we’ve been starting our hiking adventures. I suppose part of that is because it doesn’t get dark until midnight or after, if at all. We’ve been eating dinner…
South Shetland Islands 12/21
We woke up to the sound of being inside a super large ice maker set on “crush.” One look outside showed that a flotilla of what Fede calls “bergy bergs” (as opposed to the larger “ice bergs”) had settled all around the Ocean Tramp. We also saw our first cruise ship of the trip, unloading…
Penguin Pandemonium 12/20
It wasn’t supposed to be a long sail today, but we were on the Ocean Tramp for seven hours. Again, time passes so quickly here at the end of the world that it didn’t seem that long. About halfway through our travels for the day, it started to snow. Big, fat wet flakes that actually…
Ready to Launch and The Dreaded Drake
I’m being a spoiler, but I did return alive from a month in Antarctica and Argentina. I was not eaten by a Leopard Seal, or crushed by an iceberg or dehydrated to death by seasickness (although that was touch and go for a few days). I wrote a half-dozen posts while at sea on the…