February 7th. Suddenly the low clouds looked different. My face scrunched up into a confused, anticipatory look. Was that land I could see out to the East? Dave picked up his binoculars and confirmed that we were looking at jagged black rocky spires, emerging from a mass of white shimmering glaciers. The chart put a …
The first orange glow of dawn formed as a thin line on the horizon ahead of us. It slightly illuminated the rolling swell that hit the yacht from the side and white caps that rolled under the hull.My view was slowly expanding from a few metres either side of the boat to a few hundred …
Another fantastic day, this morning Icebird hit a rock and mount hard on it, one hs helping with spirit and vernadsky dinghy to get them out. After we went to Yeluor Is for a Adelie colony, I did Pizzas barbecues and after good nap anchor there , at 4 move to peterman Is where we …
You can find Cherly Randall, Captain Ernesto Barris and me of course on the right in this pic as we crossed the Antarctic Circle. More pics to come…soon.
Sharing our journey to the Ross Sea with some fantastic Disney crew.
0900 hours local time after a nice Christmas Spirit of Sydney drop the lines and slipped out of town on her next adventure to Antarctica. In the hands of Ezequiel Sunblad as Captain and Bjorn Riis-Johannessen as Experdition leader. And me left on the dock waiting my next adventure starting on the 13th. Want to …
The stern of Spirit was lifted almost vertically through the air, the rudders clung on only to submit to the almighty force of the blue-green monster. The whole boat slewed to starboard, but Spirit never let go, she was designed for this, this was her medium. She shrugged a moment and the slipped down the …
1529 local time 12th DEC Position 56.47.3s 65.15.2w course 360 Speed 10.5 knots Andy Bruce and Louise come on watch for 5 minutes and get new top seed 17.7knots 1002 miles to the Beagle channel
I switch off the handheld vac and snug the curtain that screens the anchor locker from our cabin – our man cave looks positively spick and span. Yesterday was our last skiing day in Antarctica and it did not disappoint. We had waved farewell to Eduardo at the Chilean base at the northern end of …
The baby humpback whale dived to seek out its dinner or just for the hell of it. A minute or two later she surfaced and exhaled. Just fifty meters offshore she was obviously finding her bearings, possibly her first of many, visits to Antarctica and its krill-rich waters.. Earlier, while we were skiing, Darrel, Maggie …