Journal

Buenos Aires - Monday, March 6

I write this from my hotel in BA after a couple of days rich with incident as our Victorian predecessors might have said. I’m writing this in haste as I’m leaving shortly for the airport and my flight home but I did want to post an update before I left…

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Antarctica, France, Photography, Sailing, South America Gerald FitzGerald Antarctica, France, Photography, Sailing, South America Gerald FitzGerald

At Sea - Thursday, March 3

We have spent the last three days on South Georgia henceforth referred to as SGI. I am writing this a few days later as internet access is very hit and miss. The island is about 165k long and 35k wide. For the most part the island is mountainous, snow covered all year round and the habitable portions are somewhat flat areas between the sea and the foot of the interior mountains…

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Antarctica, France, Photography, Sailing Gerald FitzGerald Antarctica, France, Photography, Sailing Gerald FitzGerald

Paradise Bay, Antarctica - Tuesday Feb 22

We sailed from Danco Island in the morning and arrived at Paradise Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula in the early afternoon. Paradise Harbour/Bay is one of only two usable Harbours for passenger boats in Antarctica. The bay is surrounded by sharply-edged and heavily glaciated mountainous peaks and massive domes of snow covering the whole landscape…

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