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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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Antarctic Peninsula Eh?

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 next day, we start crossing the Drake Passage. I thought I was going to be a hero and find out if I get sea sick or not. (Mind you, that the drake passage has the roughest waters in the world). The answer came the next day, about 2 hours after breakfast. I wasn´t feeling like US$1.5 million and after I recycled my breakfast the second time, I thoght: ´´Hey, maybe, just maybe it is time to see a doctor and take some pills. So that is exactly what I did. After that, it was sort of smooth sailing from there. Obviously I didn´t sleep the next two night since getting tossed around my bed battling death is not usually my idea of a good sleep. After we crossed the drake passage we arrived at the Shetland Islands so naturally I was getting excited. The excitement quickly died down after they announced that we can´t land on Paulette
, 2006island because of bad weather. But next day we had 3 landings to make up for it.

First was Livingston Island. We went through lectures on the boat about how not to touch or feed the wildlife and about we should stay at least 5 meters away and all that bull. I almost cared about that...I was ready to go to the zodiac boat and get on the island. I was very exciting seeing the icebergs from a small boat. We had a contest that whoever sees the first iceberg will get a bottle of fine wine. I started early, thinking that I was clever and wake up at 4am to see the bloody thing. To no avail. At least I got a nice photo of antarctic sunset which I just might share with you. For the first and last couple of days, I felt like a zombie. All I did was eat and sleep...and I am not kidding. My lazy ass would barely wake up for breakfast...go back to ...