On our way to the Ross Sea with Disney Crew members
Sharing our journey to the Ross Sea with some fantastic Disney crew.
Daily Journal update
The stern of Spirit was lifted almost vertically through the air, the rudders clung on only to submit to the almighty force of the blue-green monster. The whole boat slewed to starboard, but Spirit never let go, she was designed for this, this was her medium. She shrugged a moment and the slipped down the …
Sailing back home update
1529 local time 12th DEC Position 56.47.3s 65.15.2w course 360 Speed 10.5 knots Andy Bruce and Louise come on watch for 5 minutes and get new top seed 17.7knots 1002 miles to the Beagle channel
Returning Journey
I switch off the handheld vac and snug the curtain that screens the anchor locker from our cabin – our man cave looks positively spick and span. Yesterday was our last skiing day in Antarctica and it did not disappoint. We had waved farewell to Eduardo at the Chilean base at the northern end of …
Enterprise Island
The baby humpback whale dived to seek out its dinner or just for the hell of it. A minute or two later she surfaced and exhaled. Just fifty meters offshore she was obviously finding her bearings, possibly her first of many, visits to Antarctica and its krill-rich waters.. Earlier, while we were skiing, Darrel, Maggie …
More details about our Journey
The 50 knot gust knocked me sideways as it ripped at my overly-full rucksack. The summit was just 50m away and despite my right skin having lost all its glue we were going to make it to what we hope to claim as a first ascent…. Three days earlier The snow was settling lightly onto …
Words can not describe arriving on the peninsula
This place is not real. The glaciers loom menacing yet beguiling beautiful. The maudlin cloud cloaks majestic ice-covered mountains with crevassed ice falls tumbling down from their upper slopes. Icy white sentinels float all around, blue and white. Inanimate, but ready without warning to flip over sending a tidal wave to swamp any unwitting visitor …
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Deception Island
We spent 2 nights and 3 days there,one at Whaler’s Bay and one at Telefon Bay. What a fascinating place. The island is horseshoe shaped, with a narrow entrance 500 m, wide to the East guarded by rocks on the right hand side, and known as Neptune’s Bellows. It was one of the first parts …
Team’s Journal
‘The most inefficient way on the planet to go skiing’ so uttered what vaguely resembled Neil as we dropped off the thousandth green mountainous wave still 150 miles out from the South Shetlands. Three days earlier we had left Ushuaia eager and excited having spent four hours shuttling back and forth negotiating labyrinthine Argentine clearance …
THE MAGIC OF PENGUINS
After being tossed around on the Drake Passage for 4 days, it was such a relief to see land and moor up in Half Moon Bay, and enjoy peace and quiet. Imagine our dismay when a cruise ship drew up nearby the following morning! However, Darryl knew some of the folk on board, and they …