Antarctica

Puerto Williams is a city, port and naval base on Navarino Island in Chile. This is where we docked after a day at sea and where the ship cleared customs before we were permitted to go ashore. Customs clearance took

Besides lots of lectures, briefings and info seminars – some quite humorous, others informative and some a combination of both, a day at sea passes quickly. Today we were invited to visit the engine room. We are also in the

Our last landing before starting on our return journey. Port Lockroy has approx. 18,000 visitors per year. Postcards sent from Port Lockroy are all hand canceled then transferred by ship to the Falklands and sent on to England by air.

The walk up the snowy mountain was strenuous as it was rather slippery but well worth the effort. The Gentoo penguins lay their eggs in rock nests. This year there is still too much snow covering the rocky terrain and

Unfortunately we were now both suffering from a terrible cold and did not partake in any of the landings – nor the Polar Plunge 😥. So we made the best of the situation and took some pics from the ship.

Entering the Antarctic Sound and a New Year! A very wet and cold cruising in the Antarctic sound. We then ventured on to Brown’s Bluff and set foot on the Antarctic continent for the first time. Here awaited us hundreds

Wild Point – Site of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s shipwrecked Endurance expedition thar camped on the point for four months until rescued in August 1916 by the Chilean Navel vessel Yelcho. No landing due to high wind and swells but lots

Started the day off visiting A76A, the world’s largest iceberg. It is around 84 miles (135 kilometers) long and 16 miles (26 km) wide. Even with an extreme wide angle lens it was not possible to fit all of the

After another somewhat rocky night we woke up to calm seas and a clear sky. On the second day of the cruise we had signed up to visit the bridge if possible. No guarantee, it would be up to the

We had a very rocky night as the winds have picked up significantly. At 8:30 this morning it was 1.6° C (35° F) with winds gusting up to 60 knots (111 km/h, 69 mph). In the hopes that the weather