We have been in the Antarctic for 3 days now – not knowing yet that in a few days we will start calling this the South Shetlands in stead of Antarctica, as it is so clearly different from the high mountain...
Sometimes Antarctica is not what you imagined. Snow and ice and wind and rain and cold are all understood well in advance. Three days of calm weather and bright sunshine in a row come as a surprise for most of...
The weather during our change over days in Ushuaia was wet an windy. Not a bit moist, like now, but wet. On the 9th of January - the day our new voyage crew came on board, the deck was still covered by a tent...
The fair conditions that started yesterday in the afternoon lasted today for the whole journey. If we think that we are reaching the proximity of the legendary Cape Horn, is unusual to find the easing winds and seas that...
After a night on anchor in the beautiful natural harbour at Port Lockroy, we were now ready to visit the base. The morning was fairly cold and we experienced the strong and cold Katabatic wind blowing from the nearby glacier....
The good weather continues – it is still warm and calm and sunny. Sonice is the weather the voyage crew had to be warned: when you come home and you start reading about all the expeditions that took placehere –...
The last bit of the Drake and the discovery of Terra Australis Incognita, the unknown southern continent. The last day on the Drake was just as nice as the others – next to the term ´Dream...
After arriving in the early morning to our anchorage close to the eastern mouth of the Beagle Chanel, Europa spends the day sitting at actor before tomorrow making her way to Ushuaia. We were now once more amongst mountains...
The day of our last landing in Antarctica has arrived. After spending a night on anchor in the Errera Channel we woke up to a rather gloomy day but with occasional sun rays breaking through the clouds. The channel is...
What about waking up in Paradise? What about a different idea of a Paradise, this one being cold, icy, stuffed with high snowy mountains and dangerous glaciers? Well, that’s what happened today. Europa had made her...