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Antarctica » Antarctica January 19th 2010

This morning we awoke to views of Paulet Island from our porthole - after 3 days crossing the Scotia Sea we have made it to Antarctica. By 08:00 we are all on the narrow cobbled beach with 100,000 pairs of Adelie penguins, the whole island is covered with them (but it is only 1 mile in diameter). Its a hive of activity - there are so many penguins trundling between the sea and nest sites that its almost impossible to find space to walk along the beach. Penguins have priority here, if they are crossing the beach you have to stand and wait, then they stop to have a look at you so its stalemate and you just have to wait until they decide to move on. Once they reach the edge of the beach there's ... read more
Approaching Paulet Island
Paulet Island
Paulet Island - penguins on the move

Antarctica » Antarctica January 4th 2010

Whalers Bay, Deception Island. Site of my Antarctica Polar Plunge... read more
Neptune's Bellows
Old Dory
Old Whale Oil Tanks

Antarctica » Antarctica January 4th 2010

Yankee Harbor - Last stop in Antarctica... :(... read more
Chinstrap and Gentoo
The Ship
Antarctica Air Force

Antarctica » Antarctica » South Shetland Islands January 3rd 2010

Arctowski Station - King George Island. This is a Polish station.... read more
Blue Whale Skull
Lighthouse
Sailors Shrine

Antarctica » Antarctica January 3rd 2010

It never really got dark... The sun went down at 11PM and it was the longest sunset I have ever seen. At least 30 minutes. Then there were amazing pink/purple colored clounds for the next 2 hours until the sun rose again at 1AM.... read more
2010-01-03 Antarctica - Sunset 0002
2010-01-03 Antarctica - Sunset 0003
2010-01-03 Antarctica - Sunset 0004

Antarctica » Antarctica » South Shetland Islands January 1st 2010

Cruising to the South Shetlands... read more
Wow - Another Boat
Adelie Penguins
Many Bergs

Antarctica » Antarctica » South Orkney Islands December 31st 2009

South Orkney Islands - Too much sea ice to make a landing. :(... read more
Thru the Porthole
Orkney's Dead Ahead
Crabeater Seal

Antarctica » Antarctica » South Shetland Islands December 21st 2009

Rosco and Bones’ Antarctic Blog We left Gerardo and Marisol’s place, in Punta Arenas after lunch, but as we do, we seemed to be running a bit late? Our latest check in time for our flight to Ushuaia, was 2.15pm, we arrived at the airport around 2.40pm to find all the counters closed, but fortunately for us we spotted a girl down behind one of the counters, so we approached her and just put our luggage onto the scales, as if we were on time, she said something to us in Spanish, which sounded like the flight had closed etc, so I put our other bag onto the scales and gave her our passports. Spanish type of mumbling came from the attendant, but she spoke into her radio and a few minutes later, the bags were ... read more
Ushuaia
Drake Passage
Drake Passage




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