A quiet well deserved last day of the year. Sea shanties, maintenance projects, and preparations the day before docking at Ushuaia The anchors now hold upon good bottom, the ship spends a good quiet night at the...
Drizzle and rain. It’s wet on deck and aloft taking sails down and furling them as the ship approaches the entrance of the Beagle Channel. Europa's old hull still braves the winds, seas, ice, and swells,...
Drake Passage - Cape Horn - sailing into the Beagle Channel A day of wanderers, a day for ocean wanderers Royals and Wandering albatrosses glide and soar around the ship. With their long and narrow...
Good sailing in the Drake. Crossing the Antarctic Convergence Area. 8,9,10 kn, the speed of the Old Lady on her race across the Drake Passage. 25, 30, 35kn, the strong good southwesterly...
40kn of winds and steep swell right onto Europa’s nose made for a slow way since we left Fort Point last evening. With the gust picking up and easing and the changeable swell characteristics, for many hours her...
Of rough beauty and usually, under the moodiest of the weather, South Shetlands were the first Antarctic lands ever sighted. Controversial reports date it back all the way to 1598, when the Dutch merchant Dirck Gherritz, on...
Ship Cruise at Edinburgh Hill and night at anchor at Half Moon Island. A day at sea with good whale sightings, live music in the deckhouse, spectacular views of the South Shetland Islands, and a good...
Old glacier bergy bits and young sheets of single-year sea ice growl against Europa’s classical steel riveted hull. Large icebergs leave narrow passages in between, then drifting pack ice bands surround areas of open...
A night of detours around thick bands of pack ice brought us this morning to the southern shores of Joinville Island. A characteristic rocky headland sticks out of the ice cap that covers most of it. Amongst vertical...
Bands of growlers and bergy bits drifting together with sheets of sea ice lay on our path as the ship steers her way from her anchorage in the Herbert Sound towards the northern coasts of Vega, where the picturesque Devil...