Hercules Bay

Saturday, January 8th That morning we woke up to our captain parking TW in Hercules Bay. And what a job he did! We felt like we could almost touch the rocks; jokes were told about being parked just about on…

Gold Harbour

Friday, January 7th As mentioned the weather took a turn for the worse earlier that day in St Andrews Bay, so we left towards better weather in Gold Harbour. When we arrived there it was stunningly sunny so zodiac landings…

St Andrews Bay

Friday, January 7th Yesterday we sailed passed a rock formation called ‘Shag Rocks’, which signaled our official arrival in South Georgia. Quite a remarkable little rock formation if you think about it: they are not very big at all and…

Sailing to South Georgia

Friday, January 3rd to Monday, January 6th Our lovely luxurious ship The World (TW) sailed from Ushuaia during dinner on January 3rd. We were on the Beagle Channel until about midnight when we hit the open seas and the rolling…

Getting ready to sail from Ushuaia

Well, here we are, on board of The World, probably the most luxurious way possible to sail to Antarctica!!! We leave port in about 3 hours. First stop: South Georgia (UK). Penguins here we come 🙂 On December 31st we…

Laguna del Carbón: Tick!!!!

Yes!!!! We made it to the lowest point in South America!!! We set out early (enough) from El Calafate and started off on Ruta 9, a good gravel road. We really did feel like being away from it all; in…

Perito Moreno Glacier

Wonderful day visiting Perito Moreno glacier. Fantastic! Imagine a 50m high, 5km wide glacier slowly crawling and calving its way into Lago Argentino. We walked around the various observation points in the late morning and took the obligatory boat ride…

Arrived in El Calafate

After 2.5 interesting (and hot and humid) days in Buenos Aires, we got up at 4 am this morning to catch our 6:40am flight to Rio Gallegos. Got to the regional airport without hassles, got checked-in (and paid our reasonable…

Enjoying Buenos Aires

Had a lovely day yesterday walking about the city. The streets were quiet and hot.  We found the high-end shopping district, fortunately (or unfortunately) they were all closed, being Christmas day. Today we visit the Recoleta Cemetery, San Telmo and…

Arrived in Argentina

After a long but uneventful flight we arrived in Argentina. Today we are just relaxing and enjoying the warm weather. Maybe it is a little too warm here. Caroline conspired to leave the only key to the locks of our…

Bermuda

Kristin left NY on the afternoon of October 12th (see previous post); I checked into the Newark Airport Hilton that evening, where I was was joined by Stephen early the next morning. He’d just flown in on the red-eye from…

New York, NY.

I spent a lovely long weekend in New York with Kristin and Alison. This was Kristin’s and mine first weekend away together since she had Viggo. We stayed with Alison on The World.  It was all about catching up and…

Brokeoff Mt and Ponderosa Way

Labor Day long weekend: hiking, 4WD and Sacramento. We went back to Lassen Volcanic Nat’l Park to knock of Brokeoff Mt. which is the high point of Tehama County, CA. There are 58 counties in California, with 56 high points…