March 5, 2013
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To Detaille Island, home to an eight man team from the British
Today will be a better day. Yesterday we left Punta Arenas early
Twenty seven hours of travelling later and I am approximately two thirds
Only one wild creature has ever been sighted at the South Pole, a Southern Petrel; an opportunistic bird that was most
Tuesday (pretty early) – it is now shortly before the time I was scheduled to be home in London as a
In the morning we take an early zodiac from the ship in the face of a wind that could cut glass,
To Detaille Island, home to an eight man team from the British Antarctic Survey between 1956 and 1959. Like many other
On Tuesday morning we get the chance to visit what is possibly the closest thing to a tourist attraction in Antarctica.
64 degrees South – Cueverville Island. This morning we will visit the Penguin colony of Cuerverville Island (as nothing in
Today will be a better day. Yesterday we left Punta Arenas early to make our good weather window. Two hours later
Sunday – South Shetland Islands Swell: 3 metres Today I am mostly throwing up
This morning I take a trip to the Punta Arenas cemetery to witness the Chilean way of death in all of
Today Punta Arenas is my oyster. Capital of the Magallanes region of Chile it sits on the Magellan Straits, a natural
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.
Twenty seven hours of travelling later and I am approximately two thirds of the way to my destination having arrived in
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