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Photos mounted

The photos are mounted on Flickr site www.flickr.com/photos/jtreid

Also attached is a short penguin movie

Requested - update

I will publish the Youtube and PhotoWeb site addresses in a couple of weeks to you can see the more indepth photos

If you plan to go there on a trip I can only say two things

1) Take lots of film or Digital Memory

2) Use Quark Expeditions- I cannot believe we could have found a better company


Regards

Tom

Update 2008

I have gone back to some of the older post and put photos in from those sections of the trip.

Hope you have enjoyed the blog.- Lots of people have said how much fun it has been to follow the trip.

Tom

Back to reality

All

Well we are back from the journey of a lifetime.

A couple of hours in Ushuaia then up to Buenos Aires. We then overnight and then the long flight home.

It is hard to express how great a holiday it was. So I am going to put up a number of pictures - remember they are low quality Camcorder ones The proper pictures will blow you away.

The sights and sounds will stay with me always - probably just like the penguin guano smell ( UK customs do NOT want to open my case)

I will add more in after I am back in the UK.

TLC

Tom (formerly) of the Antarctica

Final update from Antarctica

17/12/2007 - 8pm

Well this morning the boat dropped anchor in Neko Harbour. It was beautiful.
We headed out in the Zodiac at 8:30. On the way to the beach I spotted a Minke Whale. So we stopped the boat. Then a second whale appeared and swam around the boat. We all got great photos in the crystal clear water.


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We spent about 2 hours on land visiting some penguin areas and relaxing
in the sun. Most of us were down to T shirts- The sun was burning -
everybody had SFP 45 on. Including chapstick with sun factor 15 in it.
We had lunch then went whale watching. After about an hour the Captain found a couple of humpbacks. The pair spent about 1 hour swimming around the boat and posing for pictures. An amazing day!!
We had a traditional Russian dinner tonight with the girls in costume.
Then there is late night Zodiac cruise around the island. Hopefully some more whale spotting and who knows what.
I also got issued my Certificate of Insanity for swimming in the Antarctica sea.
We head back across the Drake passage tonight and tomorrow. A long 36 hours
Then up the Beagle channel and a party night.
There will be no more updates until I get to Ushuaia on the morning of the 20th.
It has gone quickly but so many memories.

Tom of the Antarctica

Lemaire Passage

Wake up call at 5:45 so we are up and fed before we cruise the Lemaire
passage at 7am. 11km channnel with wonderful lighting. Spent an hour
doing that

We then visited another island with some history and whale bones.
This afternoon we headed to Port Lockery. This is an old whaling station and then a British base during the war.
A group of Brits have restored the site and run a museum and post office here. There is also a souviner shop as well. (US dollars and Sterling)
So have some one offs for the family and friends. There is a full whale skeleton on the island- but covered in snow.
The snow was thick and fast. We were having snow ball fights from the
Zodiacs as we passed each other. Like a bunch of kids. The retired people were the worst.
Well back on board and dinner later.



Tmrw is the the last day of Zodiac visit before we start the long journey back over the Drake passage. (ear patches on)
Tom of the Antarctica


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