It started out with a small gathering in one of the state rooms and a bottle of vodka. We managed to down most of the bottle when we were invited to have a few more drinks with the Russian crew. Following our new friends we headed into the ships interior where we ended up in [...]

Standing very still, I watched as they walked, waddled before me. The first one standing within a foot or so, as it was followed by another, and then another until the group of six formed a semi-circle around me. They moved their heads back and forth in slow curiosity of this towering giant covered in [...]

Random thoughts going back a number of years to the trip to Antarctica.”Glittering white, shining blue, raven black, in the light of the sun the land looks like a fairy tale. Pinnacle after pinnacle, peak after peak, crevassed, wild as any land on our globe, it lies, unseen, and untrodden.” Roald Amundsen Journal Entry- 2001 [...]