The Ice at Pleneau Bay

February 25th 2016
The many men so beautiful And they all dead did lie And a thousand, thousand slimy things Lived on and so did I. Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Samuel Taylor Colridge, 1799 Deck 8 is an open platform - it’s windswept and exposed. It’s ideal for some jogging or for some small piece of solitude as hardly any one goes up there. I love being up high on the stormy seas with views across the r ... read more

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Speculation over the existence of a "southern land" was not confirmed until the early 1820s when British and American commercial operators and British and Russian national expeditions began exploring the Antarctic Peninsula region and other areas sou... ... read more

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26th February 2016

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Tara Cloud

Little bits of magic!
Flying on the open deck, southern winter already approaching while the rest of the south still basks in summer, observing the antics of both questionable human behavior and of the only native terrestrial resident of Antarctica, and getting to cross the fabled Drake passage over and over and up and down again. Magical life you lead!

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