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December 10, 2004

A Mostly Smooth Drake

After our last two landings, it was time to head back into the Drake Passage, unfortunately. The way back was also mostly "smooth," although it did get pretty rough in the middle of the night on the second night. At...

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Anyone for a Swim?

We had two more landings left before heading back across the Drake Passage to Ushuaia. After the morning wake up call and breakfast, we geared up for our landing on Deception Island. The "deception" of the Island is that it...

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Continental Landings

The next day we made two more landings, both on the Peninsula itself. After the excitement of the previous day, everything ran like clockwork. Delphin took us over in the zodiac to the first landing at Waterboat point, where two...

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Petermann and Lemaire

Leaving Mikkelsen Harbor, we were already at a latitude of 63 degrees south. Of course, part of being that far south at this time of the year is that it doesn't really get dark. I woke up at about 3:30...

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LET US IN!!!

The next morning, thursday, we were supossed to have our first landing, but when I woke up and looked out the window, it didn't seem very promising. We were still cruising along the ice edge looking for a way in...

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December 09, 2004

A Smooth Drake?

When I went to bed that first night, the waters didn't seem very turbulent. Even so, I took some seasickness pills anyway, just to be safe. In the middle of the night, I was woken up by the drawers in...

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Posted by msshell at 04:14 PM | Read Comments (9)
December 08, 2004

The REAL land down under

If it is true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then by my calculations, I will have to write at least a million words to accurately describe my experience in Antarctica, since I took over a thousand pictures....

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