As promised, the winds picked up again yesterday evening and we spent the night slithering up and down our beds as the ship swung from side to side. Awaking from a not particularly restful sleep, we found our view unchanged, ocean to every side. As we slowly inched forwards towards the southernmost tip of Argentina,…
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With the wonders of modern technology, I’m writing, and hopefully sending, this blog post from the MS Expedition, located just past 59 degrees south, halfway across the Drake Passage en route to our first point of call in Antarctica, the South Shetland Islands. We expect to make our first landing tomorrow afternoon, but it’s not…
There’s a flurry of bags arriving in the lobby of the hotel, ready for loading onto the ship. I’m going to go on a tour of the Tierra del Fuego National Park before we board ship this afternoon. The tour leaders have the fun job of standing guard over all the bags until we leave!
My bags and I have now arrived safely in Ushuaia, the southern-most city in the world. Despite having the smallest amount of luggage of the group I checked in with, I was the only one got stung for excess baggage charges. Still, at 96 pesos (about 30USD) it wasn’t enough to really complain about, and…
25 hours after I left home yesterday, and after a two hour delay in Paris, my flight touched down in Buenos Aires, and for the first time, I put my feet on South American soil. This is my third visit to the southern hemisphere, but the first time that the shift in seasons has been…