Somehow the land always comes as a surprise. We know it is here, it has been known for 200 years by now, and even before that, before it had ever been seen it was known. Antarctica is the only continent that...
Is writing that the calm evening cruise feeling will change, like I did last time, is that tempting faith? Off course it is not. The Drake does exactly what he wants and we can not influence the weather, we...
Somehow the land always comes as a surprise. We know it is here, it has been known for 200 years by now, and even before that, before it had ever been seen it was known. Antarctica is the only continent that...
And so we make our entrance to the Drake again – in the evening sun under sail, the water calm and a dolphin our two showing up alongside – we almost reach the point where we untie our deck chairs...
In the silence of the night, through many storms I steer; so I could light bonfires on the mountain tops.” Iranian folk song And thus it was that we reached beyond the southern high...
During our last two days at the peninsula we have been exploring a little – not only places but also new types of weather. On the morning of the 22th we woke up North of Lemaire – it was a bit windy,...
We have been in the Antarctic for 3 days now – not knowing yet that in a few days we will start calling this the South Shetlands in stead of Antarctica, as it is so clearly different from the high mountain...
For about three days now we have been moving over the Drake as fast as we could – with the breath of the low pressure in our neck and sails, we were using all possible power to keep up the speed. And we...
We are heading North and this time we are crossing a Drake. We did on the way South off course, but he was in such a mood that we hardly could say we crossed the Drake. Did we hope for something similar? Were...
The good weather continues – it is still warm and calm and sunny. Sonice is the weather the voyage crew had to be warned: when you come home and you start reading about all the expeditions that took placehere –...