Antarctica with Apprehension

[craven morehead]

Awesome fotos !!

 

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The next day we landed at Port Lockroy on Goudier Island - site of the historic British Base

 

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Some quite good drawings of Hollywood stars

 

[love_the_life]

Florence the expedition leader on our cruise spent 6 months at Port Lockroy in a previous life.

 

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The penguins were in residence and breeding under the huts. There were quite steep rocky slopes under the hut and one poor penguin slid down the slope and toppled beak first into the snow - no picture unfortunately but Ms FM and I were in hysterics.

 

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from the base we did a quick zodiac ride to Jougla Point and some rather pretty seals

 

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More cranky penguins

 

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and lots of lovely babies

 

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There were also birds breeding and I like the one of the penguin and gull

 

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In the afternoon we went for a zodiac ride in the Skontorp Cove/Paradise Bay area. We saw our first other ship - a National Geographic ship, visiting an Argentinian Base. Apparently this is a grey area. Strictly speaking you bid for places you want to visit and no two ships should be there at the same time. However if a base extends an invitation to visit you can get round this (although there was a bit of gritted teeth about this and clearly they thought it shouldn't happen)

 

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Just a few more photos from this day - next stop the circle.

 

[SuePa]

no two ships should be there at the same time

We were at a beach in South Georgia and got gatecrashed by Princess Anne! Well apparently she is the patron of the South Georgia Islands, so I suppose that gives you some privileges.

 

[drron]

Indeed she is and in 2009 had officoial duties there.

 

[bPeteb]

Loved our visit to the Italian Zucchelli in Terra Nova Bay. It would be such an amazing experience. If only I had a required skill other than enthusiasm! Loving the photos fm.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Loved our visit to the Italian Zucchelli in Terra Nova Bay. It would be such an amazing experience. If only I had a required skill other than enthusiasm! Loving the photos fm.

i was lucky enough to have two talented photographers this time. Mr FM is quite good, but he had backup from our son-in-law. He has quite an artists eye.

 

[Drakecula]

So I nagged Mr FM into taking me for a drive. We went via as many roundabouts and curvy bits as we could. I read my book and started feeling queasy. Put the magic glasses on and carried on reading, stomach settled. After 10 minutes I took them off and carried on reading with no return of queasy feeling.

I am trying to talk Ms FM into trying them, but she just laughed at me.

It was just a small experiment, but certainly worked for me.

I am glad to hear they worked for you. I'll have to look into them. If I could sort out my seasickness, then it opens up more opportunities for holidays. At the moment I've just avoided boats if I can which is sort of limiting. I too get ill when reading in cars, so knowing that you felt better after wearing them for a bit gives me hope.

 

[Flying mermaid]

I am glad to hear they worked for you. I'll have to look into them. If I could sort out my seasickness, then it opens up more opportunities for holidays. At the moment I've just avoided boats if I can which is sort of limiting. I too get ill when reading in cars, so knowing that you felt better after wearing them for a bit gives me hope.

I am happy for you to borrow a pair and try them out -PM me if you want to.

 

[Pushka]

I am glad to hear they worked for you. I'll have to look into them. If I could sort out my seasickness, then it opens up more opportunities for holidays. At the moment I've just avoided boats if I can which is sort of limiting. I too get ill when reading in cars, so knowing that you felt better after wearing them for a bit gives me hope.

I never read in cars for this reason but I don’t get seasick.

 

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Mr FM discovered he had some nice photos from the Zodiac cruise around Skontorp Cove. One of the crazy Expedition crew handed around a big lump of ice in his bare hands, so we could listen to the ice popping from air bubbles

 

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Had a look at some cliffs where shags were breeding