Hi there friends We are off tomorrow (Tuesday) on a trip to the USA. The first leg of the trip involves 31 days of touring through Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California starting and finishing in LA. We have hired a motorhome for this leg and will be following a plan I have put together to see the sights. We then fly up to Anchorage in Alaska and from there north again to Deadhorse, the very top of Alaska on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Here we start a 17day guided tour through Alaska finishing in Anchorage. We fly back to LA, spend a few days (Shopping....) and then back home via the flying Kangaroo. We will attempt to update the blog regularly and show you some of the images I hope to get as we ... read more

Hello All Corinne and I have had an unfortunate incident which I will summarise here. During our tour with Wild Dog Safaris in Namibia we were camping at the Okajima/Africat complex about 200kms north of the capital of Windhoek. At 3am local time on the 2nd of February our camp was attacked. A group of men with guns and knives slashed our tents with knives and then pulled all of the 9 people in our group and the 3 guides from our tents and dragged us into the middle of the camp and pushed us to the ground, a few of us including me were punched and fell and had minor injuries like cut feet. A gunshot was fired in the air. Most of us were half naked and dazed and lights were shined in ... read more

Today is our last day in Rio and then we head home via Buenos Aires, Auckland and Sydney. Hopefully no more than 30 hours on the go. Since our last blog we did some snorkeling in Bonito and then moved onto Rio for the Carnival. The freshwater snorkeling day at Bonito was good, got sunburnt however because you are not allowed to use sunscreen so it doesn’t damage the environment. The waterways are quite clear in places and the fish are about in numbers, not the same as snorkeling on a coral reef but still quite nice. From Bonito we got a minivan to Campo Grande (4hrs) and then a flight to Sao Paulo and then another onto Rio. Our first flight was late and we therefore missed our next flight and they put us on ... read more

Hola We are presently back in El Calafate just for the day. The last few days we have been in the town of El Chalten in the northern section of the Los Glaciares National Park. This is the premiere trekking destination in Argentina. The mountains are the main attraction, Monte Fitz Roy is the tallest in the park at 3405 meters and there are several others over 3000 meters. They are spectacular however not so much because of their height but because of their steep sides and glaciers, lakes and streams. The weather in El Chalten is similar to Torres del Paine. Like in TDP the mountains in the park where you trek are only a couple of kilometers from the massive Helio Sur (Southern Patagonian Ice Cap) which is the largest area of permanent ice ... read more

Well my expedition voyage is over and I have lived to tell the tale. Overall the trip was amazing. The wildlife especially in South Georgia is staggering. We had some good weather and some bad weather. I can recall on the third night out around the Falkland Islands about 9.30pm hanging on for dear life in my bunk for about two hours trying to prevent myself ending up on the floor. But that was not the norm and overall you get use to the motion of the ship. Makes it hard to sleep some nights however, you have to lay on your back. I took some pills for the days of open ocean crossings and they pretty much did the trick and I never got sick. Some people were medicated every day of the trip and ... read more