Author: awaywiththebirds
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James’ and Sara’s Excellent Atacama Adventure
Day 4: The geysers Dina has asked why llamas are so colourful… people place ribbons on them as a sign of affection and thankfulness because the llamas enabled transport across the country Early start to travel to the geysers at Il Tatio which has the third largest in the world, after Yellowstone and some place…
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James’ and Sara’s Excellent Atacama Adventure
Day 4: Atacama colours The hotel runs two excursions each day ( a bit like what Scenic Eclipse did in Antarctica). When you first arrive, the guides sit down with you, describe the excursions and then map out what you will do. Today, I did a walk through Devil’s Gorge, while James did a bike…
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James’ and Sara’s Excellent Atacama Adventure
Day 1-3: Antarctica to Atacama Very sad to say goodbye to Antarctica. But we are going from the driest continent in the world to the second driest place on earth, the Atacama desert in Chile, and from one of the coldest places on earth to something a little warmer. Two travel days to get from…
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James’ and Sara’s Excellent Antarctica Adventure
Day 16: Drake passage, Beagle channel, Ushuaia – special sport and food edition Sorry none of you could open video……have tried again at the end of this blog. In the meantime, James finally managed to get his act together and get some photos of his sporting exploits throughout the cruise. He did 2 kayaking outings…
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James’ and Sara’s Excellent Antarctica Adventure
Day 15: At sea By popular demand (drum roll), the plunge ……. and he got a certificate for his effort……
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James’ and Sara’s Excellent Antarctica Adventure
Day 15 : Portal point, Charlotte bay and unexpected visitors to the polar plunge Up early for a zodiac landing on Portal point, another stop on the Antarctic continent (rather than an island). It was snowing quite heavily but not that cold. As we were on the continent again, the Antarctica flag came out again….…
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James’ and Sara’s Excellent Antarctica Adventure
Day 14: Lemaire Channel, Pleneau and Petermann islands By the way, am loving all your comments!!!! And today we are at the southernmost point of our adventure …. Here are our coordinates. Apparently this is 1 degree short of being in the Antarctic circle (66 degs), defined to be where there is 24 hour daylight.…
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James’ and Sara’s Excellent Antarctica Adventure
Day 13: Paradise Bay and Damoy Point In answer to Sammy’s question, every passenger was given a heavy, waterproof jacket to keep, so I am only feeling any level of coldness around the face, and the hand that has to be gloveless in order to take photos. We are also loaned a pair of wellie…
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James’ and Sara’s Excellent Antarctica Adventure
Day 12: Mikkelsen Harbour and Cierva Cove Being an avid weather groupie, Martin has asked for the coordinates of our position. So here it is Very cold today..it’s between zero and 2 deg C and it snowed lightly all day, was cloudy and overcast. In the morning we took the zodiacs over to Mikkelsen Harbour…
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James’ and Sara’s Excellent Antarctica Adventure
Day 10: At sea in the Weddell Sea Ok first let me respond to some of your questions. Sammy, I didn’t get close enough to smell the red pop but as soon as you land on the beach there’s a strong stench of something that resembles ablutions! Rob, yes it is true that another difference…