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Creatures of South Georgia
Amazing...

Amazing as always!
Love your travels and posts....keep 'em coming.

The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
While I was working in Antarctica our theme song was from Timbuk3....The future's so bright I've gotta wear shades. Loved it. So this blog brought back pleasant memories. One of my friends lost an expensive bracelet. I was out cross country skiing and found it. What is wrong with you? You are a world traveler and you need to get your mind right about the travel thing. Seriously! We love, love, love hanging out in airports, people watching, reading, writing blogs, wandering. Our jobs are tough and we are tied to phones and beepers so when we are in an airport we don't have to deal with any of that . Guess our perspective is different. Airport = new adventure. Get your mind right my friend. Don't fight it.

Fantastic Voyage
I would love to take this trip.

Fabulous wildlife!
Glad you were able to stay with a friend in that hyper-remote, expensive, and exotic island. And the last voyage of the season, so back home to hang with polar bears or down to the ends of my continent and Antarctic--such fabulous choices!

Nunavut
Disco Dave chasing the kid with the radio. Imagine the thrill of the chase...both blowing steam in a frigid wasteland. Evocative image to be sure.

An icy green(land) adventure!
Ice, two miles thick and a glacier moving 20 meters a day--rather as mind blowing as licorice ice cream! I visited fiords in Alaska and Patagonia that were so chocked with icebergs that they were no longer navigable--in both, global warming was causing additional calving to take place. Good for Lisa for portraying traditional life! I love dog sleds, but I wonder if sadly, the Inuit use more snow mobiles these days?

Lovely
Hanging out.

The dead dub made me sad but it is the way of nature.
Wow, this is a fantastic photo. I'm always excited by the world you are sharing with us. The arctic fall has arrived..... I would think the summer lasted a day or two. I experienced the never setting sun when working in Antarctica. It is an experience. The wildlife looks amazing. I love the raw nature that you have described.

Peace, quiet and sights rarely seen!
Magical journey--witnessing the extremes of the natural cycles hidden from city dwellers--sun and moon, life and death, musk oxen and polar bears. Your camping in the Arctic sounded extreme (though your cat duvet was clearly the best), until I saw though that brekkie with tropical treats. I see how you thrived, but how did those Thules manage it? I'm off to wifi-less towns in the Bolivian Andes for a bit. I'll have to catch up later! Thanks for sharing your unique explorations!

The Terror remains lost...
Personally, I'd never want to set sail on a ship named Terror--what were they thinking? I've a friend from Uruguay whose older brother was on that rugby team lost in the Andes who survived through cannibalism. I guess you do what you have to do.

Desolate, dark and freezing
Hard to really wrap my head around how formidable it is up there, and how awful must have been the last days of these men. Curious that the bones of the uninterred were never found since it seems unlikely that wolves or other carnivores would be up there.