Tuesday, January 18, 2011

On our way back home

Panorama picture early am in Gerlach Strait. Margot only person on the bow. Paradise
The last day on the Peninsula we visited Port Lockroy and Culterville. Saw killerwhales again, and leopard seals and lots of gentoo penguins with babies. Abundant wildlife. And again, sunshine. We lucked out completely with 10 days of beautiful weather.
The Drake's Passage crossing lasted 40 hours, but was very calm. We made good speed and had time to sail past Diego Ramirez Islas as well as Cape Horn. Hundreds of albatross around the ship at one point.
Margot

After a long journey seeing the last of our Antarctica Peninsula, seeing baby Killer Whales chasing a
penguin, Seeing Rockhopper Penguins at Cape Horn, and sailed across Drakes Passage we finally arrived at Ushuaia harbor. We then took a flight to Santiago,Chile and we are still waiting to get on our flight to Dallas,Texas and there to San Francisco. The bad thing about this trip is now we really want to go back to Antarctica and see penguins. I hope maybe I can work there and go back a lot.
Callum

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