Frenchy’s Fracas

So here’s an overview of my posts (so far) regarding my trip to Antarctica 2005.

Click on the green dots to take you to the related post(s), and.. image maps? That’s quite a while for me, heheh..
[DISABLED THE FRIGGIN IMAGEMAP, THING GOT ON ME NERVES, sorry about that..]

Misc.
Intro

Almost Leaving Now..

Greetings From Ushuaia!!

First Pix

Day 2
Buenos Aires - Sunday Morning Stroll..

Buenos Aires - Plaza De Mayo

Buenos Aires - Puerto Madera

Day 2/3
Ushuaia

Day 4/5
Two Days On Open Sea..

Day 5
Aitcho Islands - First Landing!

Day 6
Deception Island (1)

Deception Island (2)

Deception Island (3)

Day 7
Orne Island(s)

Orne Island(s) - Iceberg Trip Back To The Ship

Boat Trip To Cuverville Island (AKA Iceberg Fiesta) - 1

Boat Trip To Cuverville Island (AKA Iceberg Fiesta) - 2

Cuverville Island

Further Down Errera Channel (1)

Further Down Errera Channel (2)

Almirante Brown Scientific Base

Paradise Harbour (1)

Paradise Harbour (2) - Look, It’s A Giant Suzuki!

Paradise Harbour (3) - Landing On The Continent!

Day 8
Lemaire Channel

Port Charcot

Iceberg Cruise

Vernadsky Station

X-mas Eve

Day 9
On To Jougla Point

Port Lockroy Landing

Day 10
Whale Watching!(1)

Whale Watching!(2)

Whale Watching!(3)

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Not a lot happened but still: we boarded the Gregoriy Mikheev with their great Russian crew. After the introductions we had the safety drill the first evening (some pictures are just too sensitive to publish, heheh..). We had this fantastic evening cruise through the Beagle Channel, great views!
And then.. the two days of Open Sea started, passing through Drake Passage, 90% of the passengers were either seasick or were staying in bed just to avoid said sickness.. This happy passenger didn’t have any problems with the rough seas, although the first night in my sleeping bunk was a roller-coaster ride of an experience..
We got some lectures about the birds and penguins and such to pass the time, but mostly I spent my time finding a nice place for a quiet smoke and since smoking was only allowed on the outside decks, you can imagine that the heavy seas sure made me cut down on my daily smoking: healthy experience after all!
Finally, we reached some land and that was a great thing to experience.. Coz that evening we were going to do our first landing!

Your best friend in times of certain needs..

Didn’t get seasick, lucky me!

Land!!

First iceberg, far, far away..

Nice view after all that sea..

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