Month: January 2023

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