Travel blog by a global nomad
After my morning disappointment of not finding the lost biblical ark, it was off to Carcass Island in search of something far more humbling – the burrowing Magellanic Penguin. The ship had relocated during lunch – literally just sailing slightly north and we were drifting just off Leopard Beach. From here, those wanting to stretch [...]
Today I got to lead a climb up Mt Arrarat. Mt Arrarat is fabled as being the place where Noah’s ark got stranded after the great flood – there was even a documentary made about it! True, this documentary, complete with pictures of what clearly looks like half an ark on a steep mountain slope [...]
To… The 10th Jan dawned kinda misty and overcast in the vicinity of Weincke Island and nearby site of the restored British Base, Port Lockroy. A minke hovered near the ship, but most were expressed to either Port Lockroy – to look at more Gentoos, but really to post letters from Antarctica – and the [...]
We made it to Paulet Island! This year in the Antarctic Peninsula, the sea ice has persisted far longer in the Antarctic Sound, a body of water at the northern tip of the Peninsula. This has made it very hard for cruise ships to penetrate into the northern reaches of the Weddell Sea and exploit [...]
New ship… New cruise… Same weather….! I have jumped ships and am now working on the World Discoverer for Society Expeditions as an english-speaking lecturer for the rest of their Antarctic season. Its a very nice ship and I think the clientel are also slightly more used to being treated with respect as ‘individuals with [...]
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