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Antarctic Peninsula Eh?<br /><br />This might be a longer email but hey....one can´t possibly skip the details. Our ship was quite a collection of oddballs but I guess that´s what makes it fun. The first day we were crossing the Beagle Channel so everything was cool.

The Last Frontier --Antarctica

Russ Russ
2006-03-23 13:51:38

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bed just to hopefully wake up for lunch. Now I know what a 3 toed sloth goes through. ANYWAY, back to the island. The first thing one notices is a funny smell. Then right after you realize that the whole island smells like shit. Just one big whiff is all you need to set the record straight. First penguins we saw were Gentoo and Chinstrap. I took some pictures and a couple of videos and upon playing them back, I realized I sound like a complete bufoon but it was too late. Anyway, I also saw sea lions and some birds.

Everyone was taking pictures like a madman. Little did we know that soon enough we would get sick of these bastards. They are everywhere. They are just as dirty as friggin koalas. I actually have a video of one penguin lying down while the one that is standing beside him lifts his ass and shits all over the other one. Where else can you get footage like that? ONLY IN ANTARCTICA!!! The next couple of places we landed at were Cuverville Bay, Hannah Point. Don´t ask me which island they are on. I am just trying to sound smart. We saw fur seals and actually I got chased by one of them cause I got too close while taking pictures. Right after taking a couple, he decided to kick my
ass. So I ran like a little school girl.

We also saw orcas (killer whales), chasing and killing a penguin in the ocean and I got a sweet video of that as well. I also saw a leopard seal eating a penguin and skinning it. Basicaly penguins are everybody´s prison bitches. They get eaten by birds, seals and killer whales. But at least they manage to crap all over the place before they die.

We were lucky again after Paradise Bay landing cause we saw a huge chunk of glacier fall down into the bay and form this mini tsunami. it was dead calm and after the glacier broke off the wave came up to around 7-8 meters. Once again...most of this is on americas most wanted videos. You know I will be charging for this. In order to keep this email shorter than it should be, I will summarize the rest in point form.
-- my cabin partner was german and surprise surprise he didn´t leave any tip for the staff
-- met about 10 other people on the boat that are also going to Rio after this
-- one crazy ozzie climbed the front of the boat and took a picture of himself naked

Overall, it was amazing. We visited some research stations and the most southern point we reached was the ukrainian Vernadsky station at around 65º latitude. Now, I will try to share some pictures and tomorrow I am off to Rio for Carnaval. Lata everyone.