Category Antartica 2025

We flew overnight from JFK on an American Airlines 777-200 in business class. Leaving from New York was the best option for a direct flight and much less expensive than other options. We hired a car to take us to…

We started the day in the Gold lounge for breakfast and it was lovely. They had many different fresh fruits, interesting pastries and cooked eggs of several varieties. We were offered the “gold upgrade” for a nominal fee a week…

We got up early to meet our tour guide to do the Rio tour. We ha contracted with a private company that Conrad found called Be Free Tours, Marcelo the owner had been very professional and communicative leading up to…

We had a quite early start to the day getting up at 3:15 to get ready for our 5 Am departure to the airport. When we looked out on the water around 4 AM we could see masses of Stand…

We had breakfast on the 31st floor of the hotel which had beautiful views of the city. View from the restaurant at the top of the hotel View from the restaurant at the top of the hotel View from the…

We left on busses to the airport to await our charter flight. Not much of note it was a 3 hour flight which landed in a tiny airport with 2 gates. We collected our luggage and headed to a large…

After a light snack on the ship we did another landing on Saunders to have a BBQ lunch and see a sheep farm. Before we left the ship we noticed someCommerson’s dolphins pl;aying in the wake of the Zodiacs and…

We had a 6:30 AM wake-up call this morning for breakfast, and then headed to our first stop at Saunders Island. At this cove there are 4 different types of Penguin colonies Gentoo,Magellanic, Rock Hopper and King Penguins. Penguin Colonies…

Today we have 2 stops in the Falklands. The first is called Carcass where we opted to take a 2.5 mile hike which passes some Penguin colonies, and has lots of nesting birds. The Zodiac ride to shore was quite…

Today we visited the capital of the Falklands – Stanley. It’s really the only town of any size here. We headed out for a dry landing, which is nice because it means we don’t need to wear the knee high…

We woke up looking out at Icebergs out the window. We were headed for a harbor where we hoped to at least get into the Zodiacs to cruise by the Macaroni Penguins, but the wind was 40 knots gusting to…

In the morning of the second day in South Georgia we woke up to an early wake up all as we passed the area where Sir Ernest Shackleton finally reached South Georgia about 7 months after he and his men…

We started our day in a really beautiful protected cove called Godthul, still in South Georgia. When we first arrived we were greeted with a large iceberg covered in Penguins. They had planned some hikes and it was supposed to…

In the morning we had been told that there would be a 4:15 AM soft wakeup call if the weather was good to see the sn rise over Gold Harbor. Fortunately or unfortunately, the weather was snowy and overcast so…

Today was a day at sea, which generally doesn’t have much to talk about but today we passed the largest iceberg in the world. A23a broke off from theFilchner–Ronne Ice Shelfin 1986. It was stuck on the sea bed for…

We are slowly making our way from South Georgia towards Antartica. Today we spent the day in the South Orkney Islands. In the morning we landed on Signy Island at Stygian cove. There were some penguins and some seals but…

Today we visited Point Wild on Elephant Island. Point Wild is a narrow sand and rock point, with steep tidewater glaciers and cliffs on its edges. It lies on the north coast of Elephant Island (part of the South Shetland…