Travel blog by a global nomad
We have just arrived at the tiny island of South Georgia, a little wilderness gem deep in the Southern Atlantic and just inside the cold Antarctic waters. Just before breakfast, we had cruised around Cape Disappointment at the southern end of the island in horrifying grey, wind swept seas. But as we came into the [...]
I type this now with frozen fingers and with the ship still lurching around as we slam into 1 meter thick sea ice floes in the Weddell Sea! Today has been an amazing day, progressing deeper and deeper into the frozen world that trapped Shackleton’s men for 2 years.
The day started with a visit to [...]
During the afternoon, the shop repositioned itself 3 hours north at Livingston Island. The clouds blew away, the Antarctica Peninsula, 100km away was visible – a line of glacier white mountains stretching from one end of the southern horizon to the other, and white pinpricks in the water resolved themselves into icebergs.
At Hannah Point on [...]
Back down on the shore of Whaler’s Bay, the tide was receeding, a gentle snow was falling and sulphur-tinted steam from the volcanically heated waters of Deception Island was rising from the black sands – time for a polar plunge! I hate polar plunges and any exercise which requires me to step into water of [...]
Yesterday a Force 10 storm, today snow, wind and sunshine… As the night closed in last night, the wind dropped off until we were gently rocked to sleep by the ships motion – banished were the 100km/hr winds and 10m high waves!
This morning we woke up to what can euphamistically be called, “Atmospheric Antarctica” ie [...]
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