Position – 62o 59’S/60o 34′ W Location – Whaler’s Bay, Port Foster, Deception Island, ANTARCTICA Temperature – Baltic Wind – Strong and severe Weather Conditions – Cold, windy, dry Date – Friday 12th November 2010 Time – 9.02 am An active volcano, a magical island and an ex whaling station lay in store for us Read more about Backpacking in Antarctica🇦🇶: Whaler’s Bay, Deception Island🐋[…]
I did it. It wasn’t all a dream. It was something I concocted on a sober month spent endlessly working on a broccoli farm in the Tasmanian wilderness during Spring 2010. Life had taken me to lonely Poatina for whatever reason, and while days on the farm were long and hard and I had no Read more about Snowdiving At Neko Harbour: The Actual Antarctica🇦🇶Continent Landing![…]
Date – 11th November 2010 (remembrance day) Time – Between 10am – 12 noon Location – Port Lockroy, Goudier Island, Wiencke Islands, ANTARCTICA Position – 64o 49′ S, 63o 30′ W Temperature – 0 degrees Weather conditions – Cold, icy, snowstorm Wind – Relatively calm If not the defining Read more about Backpacking In Antarctica🇦🇶: Touring Port Lockroy, The British🇬🇧Antarctic Base[…]
Having watched a few documentaries on Antarctica, including Michael Palin’s “Pole to Pole” where he flew into the continent, getting a boat there was the only thing I wanted to do. I love boats, I always loved being at sea. Working on boats was great and I hope I may do that again someday. So Read more about The MS Expedition – My Voyage To Antarctica🇦🇶[…]
Date – Wednesday 10th November 2010 Position – 64o 57′ S, 63o 38′ W Location – Off the coast of Petermann Island, on the Lemaire Channel Weather – The worst conditions of my trip to Antarctica – Blizzards, Freezing Snow, Icy, Windy, Chilly Water Conditions – Pack Ice, Freezing Temperature – Cold, below zero The Read more about Backpacking In Antarctica🇦🇶: Peterman, Pleneau and the Furthest South We Went[…]
Date – Tuesday 9th November 2010 Where – Cuverville Island, Gerlache Strait, Antarctica Position – 64o 41′ S/ 62o 38′ W Weather – cold, snowy, windy Ask me this time last year if I knew where Cuverville Island was and I say “no.” But, on the trip to Antarctic the “quest” to reach the Read more about Antarctica🇦🇶Adventures: The Hound Of The Cuverville[…]
I once worked with a nice young Indian lady called Jigna back in London in 2007 while working in Public Relations (at Bite Communications) and for some reason the landing at Jougla Point in Antarctica reminded me of her. Only by name however, as this was a land of penguins and blizzards, rather than the Read more about Antarctica🇦🇶Adventures: Backpacking At Jougla Point[…]
“Wake up the dawn and her why. A dream my dream, it never dies” – Noel Gallagher. There it was. The magical. The dream really happened, and it happened at a place that most of you reading will NEVER have heard of – Barrientos. I stepped foot in Antarctica. Be honest, if you haven’t been Read more about “One small step for yer man”: Stepping Foot On Antarctica🇦🇶At Barrientos, Aitcho Islands[…]
Date – Tuesday 9th November 2010 Location – Foyn Harbour, Gerlache Strait, Antarctica Position – 64o 30 ‘S/ 62o 20’ W Weather Conditions – Sunny, clear skies I’ll be honest, deaf and naive all in one here – when somebody told me I was cruising round Foyn Harbour, I was ready to put on the Read more about Antarctica🇦🇶Adventures: The Crystal Maze – Cruising Round Foyn Harbour[…]
Date – Saturday 6th November 2010 Position – 60 o’S/60 o’ W Location – Beagle Channel Temperature – Cold, but above zero Weather – Windy and Chilly, but with the sun out Sea Conditions – Calm, but beginning to rock The first part of the epic quest to Antarctica began with a sailing and Read more about My Trip to Antarctica🇦🇶Begins: Sailing Down The Beagle Channel[…]