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Last Day in Antarctica Not last day on the ship though. From 10 full days on the ship we will in the end have spent 5 in the Drake Passage, flipping around. Antarctica is far away and you have to make efforts, and from my point of view it can stay like this always. Today . . . → Read On: Antarctica, Penguin Island, Arctowski After a quite exhausting day yesterday 😉 with hiking bathing and sauna today we could sleep in today, as with grey weather we entered and sailed into the Antarctic Sound (named after the expedition ship Antarctic). Around noon everyone was on the bridge and we always went out and back in again (freezing!) to take . . . → Read On: Antarctica, Antarctic Sound, Iceberg Alley, Devil Island 1 Day Floating in the Middle of a Vulcano Crater Over night there was strong snowfall, so we were slow and our Captain and crew on the bridge sailed us carefully through the night. Therefore we were later to our destination and enjoyed a long late breakfast at the big table, with new interesting stories . . . → Read On: Antarctica, Deception Island 6.30m sunrise brightly shouting, not shining, in sun(flower)yellow, into my cabin window (iss a window, not a porthole). Up and through the Lemaire Channel, the famous. Morning landing at the Ukrainean station Vernadsky, formerly the British Station Faraday. When the Brits wanted to close it down they sold it to the Uk´s for 1GBP. And . . . → Read On: Antarctica, Lemaire Channel, Vernadsky, Port Lockroy, Neko  Comments are closed  Antarctica 2009  antarctica, antarktis, faraday, lemaire, neko, port lockroy, vernadsky We stepped on an Antarctic Island today: Cuverville, situated 64° 41´S / 62° 38`W, in between Rongé Island situated in the Gerlache Strait and the mainland. The island is home of about max. 20.000 Gentoo Penguins, a pity I cannot send a photo of the smell with this ;). It was a wonderful (first) landing: . . . → Read On: Antarctica, Cuverville Island, Neko Harbour and Paradise Bay Comments are closed Antarctica 2009 antarctica, antarktis, cuverville island, neko harbour, paradise bay Lines off 6.30pm in Ushuaia on Monday. Alive again at 9am on Wednesday. What had happened in between? A wonderful panorama of Ushuaia and the Beagle Channel when upon departure made us all very happy, as well as J´s fantastic Welcome Dinner, a dream. After that we peacefully went to sleep, and around midnight the . . . → Read On: Antarctica, Crossing the Drake Passage Dieser Tag ist einzigartig, der schönste bisher? Scheint mir jedenfalls gerade so. Frühstück fiel aus, Schlaf war wichtiger. Das Wetter ist einfach unglaublich grossartig! Knallsonne, ein paar Wolken fern am Himmel, Wärme trotz sichtbarem Atem, ruhigstes Wasser, es treibt viel Eis umher. Wir landen in Cuverville an. Viele Eselspinguine, auch ein Albino. Meine Stimmung hält . . . → Read On: Cuverville Island und Neko Harbour Comments are closed Antarctica 2002-2006, Reise (deutsch) antarctica, antarktis, cuverville, neko harbour Nachmittags hatten meine Überredungskünste dann doch gewirkt, zwei Kollegen kamen mit mir schwimmen in Whalers Bay. Wir wollten Synchronschwimmen machen. Ich denke das Argument, dass das wohl das letzte Abenteuer sein wird, dass wir drei zusammen erleben, hat überzeugt. Auf Deception Island/Whalers Bay angekommen, sind wir zuerst zu Neptune´s Window hochgestiegen, ein riesiger Einschnitt in . . . → Read On: Schwimmen in der Antarktis Schlechtes Wetter. Die erste Anlandung, morgens Yankee Harbour, wurde gleich gecancelt, zu schlechte Anlandebedingungen. Weiter gings zu unserem Stop für den Nachmittag, Half Moon Island. Dort ähnlich, keine Anlandung möglich. Abgesehen davon sah es einfach super toll aus draussen. Meine Seekrankheit ist wie weggeblasen, die 50 Knoten, 23m/sek Windgeschwindigkeit, 7m Wellen, 9bft Windstärke machen mir . . . → Read On: Deception Island |