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Antarctica.

Tincho, our group leader. There were eighteen of us in...	Ushuaia is a busy port - and our ship is a part of the...	A close up of the rear, the stern, or aft, of our...	We boarded as we were called. Kate and Carolyn...	Kate is checking in, the bus is parked on the pier, and...	Bill and I had already boarded and found our way to the...
Zooming in on the Ushuaia airport and the Andes from the...	Mandatory meeting of correctly putting on our large...	And after putting them on, gathering at our groups...	Now on the port side overlooking the pier and the daily...	There was a very large ocean vessel which was sailing out...	The aft ropes had already been untied from the pier, but...
The larger vessel completely free of the pier. 12...	The city of Ushuaia and the Marshall Mountains. 12...	Two pier workers waiting to be told to untie the bow from...	The aft of the ship powers away from the pier. 12...	The aft of the ship is completely clear of the...	The ropes holding the bow of the ship are being...
And dropped into the water. 12 December 2019	The dockmen, aboard our ship, wind the ropes. 12...	And make sure we clear other vessels. 12 December 2019	And finally the last of the ropes are coming out of the...	And we are at sea, with Ushuaia and Argentina behind...	Judy and Carolyn find their way to the stern. 12...
Evening falls on the Beagle Channel. 12 December 2019	We awaken to massive waves outside our port hole, with no...	The sweet baboo slept well. 13 December 2019	My one and only attempt to take a picture of a bird - it...	We were invited to the bridge and Judy was intrigued by...	An apt Calvin and Hobbes posted on the information...
Sunset on our first full day of sailing, in a remarkably...	It was past noon on the second full day at sea before we...	Land, in the Antarctic Convergence, South Shetland...	Large land masses of the South Shetland Islands. 14...	The surface of the water was a thin coating of ice. We...	I did not expect mountains, much less such spectacular...
The MV CORINTHIAN, seen from Yankee Harbor in the South...	And we saw our first penguins!!! Gentoo penguins. They...	A massive mountain in Yankee Harbor. 14 December 2019	Seals and Gentoo penguins were all sunning themselves. ...	More penguins, rocks, snow. The penguins build their...	I zoomed in on the chick, not wanting to get any closer...
Seals, full of krill, sleeping on shore. 14 December...	The seals eat, then sleep, and while they sleep, they...	Claudia, in the orange jacket just about on shore, with...	Another zodiac arrives. 14 December 2019	Penguins were most interested in the action. 14...	If I had taken this picture one second earlier, the...
A whole bunch of Gentoo penguins going into the waters of...	With a zodiac coming to take us back to the ship, Judy...	Huge chunks of nearly melted icebergs washed ashore....	Heading back to open sea, our destination is now the...	No time to mourn not getting both ends of the famous...	The leaders decide it might be possible to do a landing...
Supports of weight of penguins, Adelie penguins. They...	Neither would this part of the sea ice support our...	However this looked more promising so zodiacs were...	While waiting for our group, the los adventureros rojos,...	Yea! Los adventureros rojos were called. We were all so...	Here is Bill and Carolyn in line to disembark on the sea...
Wendy and Tincho, wearing the yellow jacket of the...	Orange jacketed experts, and one yellow jacketed leader...	A picture of our ship from the sea ice. 15 December...	The sea ice had some icebergs between it and land. Judy...	Looking another direction from our moving sea ice floor,...	And more Adelie penguins come to greet us. 15...
And two south polar Skuas, and a penguin also enjoy the...	Every time we came back to the ship in our zodiacs, the...	Getting ready to disembark from the zodiac, and reverse...	After getting our life jackets, red jackets, and...	And, we got another glimpse of A680A! Still impossible...	I tried zooming in on A68A. 15 December 2019
And as the ship got closer, I zoomed in even more. 15...	The colors were incredible. 15 December 2019	Calving was apparent. 15 December 2019	The sheer beauty of it astonishing. 15 December 2019	Just where does the blue come from? 15 December 2019	We were introduced to the Argentinean custom of "mate"...
More icebergs. Then Claudia came over the PA system,...	Second landing of the day - another unusual occurence. ...	The mountains are high, rugged, and brown. 15...	There were many many many Adelie penguins. 15...	This group seemed to like walking back and forth in front...	Bill and Judy with a whole field of Adelie penguins. ...
More and more penguins, some even to the top of the...	As you see. 15 December 2019	Penguins getting ready to dive into the water, while a...	A single penguin, a rare sight. Oh, he is so...	Everybody in! The penguins are more suited to the water...	The Antarctic Sound, or the Iceberg Alley. Sunrise 2:32...
Sometimes it was difficult separating icebergs from...	Today we visited an Antarctic Research Station, Base...	Hope Bay, the bay of the research station. 16...	And then again to welcome us, an Adelie penguin. 16...	An overview of the research station. 16 December 2019	The welcome to the research station. This station is...
Another view of the buildings. Note, the cemetery in the...	One of the first shelters at Base Esperanza. 16...	Another view of Hope Bay. 16 December 2019	Our group, the los adventureros rojos, getting...	Inside the museum, Museo Antarctico, of Base Esperanza. ...	The entrance to the Museo Antartico. 16 December 2019
Again listening to Tincho, this time outside the small...	The Cross on the chapel. 16 December 2019	Entering the school and meeting hall. 16 December 2019	The classroom for the younger children. All of the...	The classroom for the older children. 16 December 2019	In side of the Chapel. 16 December 2019
Inside of a lounge area. 16 December 2019	Another view of Hope Bay. 16 December 2019	All the buildings were anchored down to the ground...	A view of Base Esperanza from Hope Bay as we headed back...	There were many iceberg sightings this day. 16...	The sun, the sea, and the iceberg, all so very clear and...
The different shapes was endlessly fascinating. 16...	A view of the mainland of Antarctica. 16 December 2019	This reminded me of a painting by Georgia O'Keefe. 16...	Another iceberg. 16 December 2019	And this one. The continual rocking of the ship was...	Icebergs float as the movement of the sea gradually wears...
The water was often so dark against the brilliance of the...	A zodiac returning to the ship after scouting our next...	Heading into Mikkelsen Harbor. 17 December 2019	Our first view of bones and ships which was many years...	A backbone of a whale. 17 December 2019	A view of the other side of Mikkelsen Harbor 17...
More whale bones. 17 December 2019	A seal sunning itself at Mikkelsen Harbor. 17...	Another seal asleep. 17 December 2019	More gentoo penguins, this time at Mikkelsen...	A gentoo penguin. 17 December 2019	Our ship, the MV Corinthian, in Mikkelsen Harbor. 17...
More remnants of the ships of the whaling expedition long...	I do not believe our friend the seal has moved, except...	A group of us walking to see the entrance to Mikkelsen...	The water is clear and cold. 17 December 2019	Evidence of avalanches and calvings, we heard three loud...	Several growlers. 17 December 2019
The air was so pure, the sun so bright, the water so deep...	Mikkelsen Harbor was the site of our group of intrepid...	The penguins swim full speed toward the shore and shoot...	After taking a few moments to dry off a bit, off this...	A growler, a little big for a growler, but a growler none...	More penguins. 17 December 2019
After we returned from Mikkelsen Harbor and the polar...	Some of us getting our food. 17 December 2019	The fruit artist busy making a penguin out of pineapple,...	The completed penguin. 17 December 2019	Leaving Mikkelsen Harbor, we begin to sail to Cierva...	The silent masses of snow and ice are eerily...
Every turn reflects sunlight differently, the clouds...	Icebergs begin very close to shore. 17 December 2019	Another piece of the continent which is home to Gentoo...	There is no landing spot on this trip in the zodiacs,...	A reddish tint on some of the mountains in Antarctica. ...	The penguins gradually walk to the top. 17 December...
Penguins are water animals, so one will find them near...	One can barely see them in their nesting area on the top...	The penguins have no difficulty no matter what the height...	As you see. They would often watch us as much as we...	Penguins are not the only birds. We cannot remember what...	Continuing our slow drift amidst the icebergs. The...
The blues are so blue. 17 December 2019	And the air around them as the icebergs slowly drift,...	One can see why Cierva Cove is an excellent place to...	Bill, as well as the rest of us, captivated. 17...	A seal has found yet another sleeping place. With all...	With another mountain range behind this piece of the...
And sleep. 17 December 2019	Shapes mimic shapes. 17 December 2019	Is it all clouds mounting and gathering in the sky, or do...	Suddenly the vastness of the sea waters increase and we...	Another Argentinean research station, Primavera. This...	And ice shelf, not yet an iceberg. 17 December 2019
Icebergs come in so many shapes, and again, is it snowy...	So cold, so bitterly cold, yet enticing. A thin layer of...	Everything is so exquisite, pure, the air itself can be...	The blue is so blue it almost hurts. 17 December 2019	Icicles! We had stopped our slow drifting to share some...	It is not hard to see where this iceberg broke away...
Is it two icebergs or one? 17 December 2019	We must be drifting toward the end of this land mass as...	Straight lines, peaks, circles, colors - how does it all...	Again the clouds add to the grandeur of the massive...	A strings of penguins swim past our bow. 17 December...	As the clouds increase, the brightness decreases, the...
A penguin, part of another string swimming by, breaches...	What has made a hole appear in the clouds, and the...	The gas line of our zodiac was crimped somewhere, so our...	It is good to see the MV Corinthian, but our adventure...	Ken, in the disabled zodiac waiting to be pulled along...	We were told before we left for the trip to pack a bright...
The fantastic never boring always unique icebergs. 17...	One of the groups brought a growler back from their day...	After dinner, a walk around the deck showed we were...	After about an hour and a half, no land could be seen,...	And afforded us a stunning sunset, nearly 30 minutes in...	The sun seemed to ride on the horizon. 17 December 2019
Clouds continued to gather on the horizon. 17...	Bill and I were the only ones on deck, everyone else must...	About twenty minutes later, the entire sky seemed to be...	The clouds on the horizon darkened and darkened. 17...	And the atmosphere, on that calm sea, was also...	And finally, after thirty minutes, it was as dark as it...
Full daylight the next day. We landed at Half Moon...	And we saw our first Chinstrap penguins, so called...	Half Moon Island also has remnants of a whaling...	Three chinstraps are walking right along side of...	The chinstraps of Half Moon Island have a different type...	Half Moon Island is flat enough to allow us to see a...
I cannot identify the birds that are also on Half Moon...	There is a small Chilean Research Station on Half Moon...	A chinstrap penguin arrives from a swim in the waters of...	More chinstraps along the shore. Chinstrap penguins are...	Bill and Judy on Half Moon Island. The MV Corinthian is...	Bill and Pablo, another group leader. Pablo had noticed...
Some of the incredible mountains on Half Moon...	All four groups formed a line to explore some of Half...	A frozen lake and more glaciers on Half Moon...	Judy spent some time in the Silent Zone - the flag was...	I believe this bird is a Skua. The camouflage for both...	A long line of explorers walking on Half Moon...
Another skua, this one on a nest. 18 December 2019	Judy signed a treaty, we all had to, that said the signee...	Along our walk on Half Moon Island we saw many...	The skull of a chinstrap penguin. 18 December 2019	Continuing our trek on Half Moon Island, Tincho found ...	Another skull of a chinstrap penguin. 18 December 2019
The breast bone of a chinstrap penguin. 18 December...	The spinal column of a chinstrap penguin. All of this,...	Exhausted adventurers across the zodiac from Judy -...	A view of the complicated process of debarking from a...	An hour later we were headed away from Half Moon Island,...	And more icebergs of spectacular size and shape. 18...
Despite all the activity on Half Moon Island, we slowly...	We successfully traversed through Neptunes Bellows into...	Deception Island is an island in the South Shetland...	A leopard seal was on the beach at Whalers Bay. All of...	Whaler's Bay is desolate. Not much penguin or bird...	The caldera is made up of rocky crags. 18 December 2019
We could take a steep hike up to Neptune's Window, the...	More charred rock, another view from Neptune's Window,...	And turning away from the open ocean, a view of the...	Many of us took the somewhat treacherous hike up to, and...	More evidence of the destruction of the volcano...	All the miscellaneous shards of wood are from a Norwegian...
Just two gentoo penguins on a dark charred rocky beach....	We do not know if the whaling station was destroyed...	Another damaged and abandoned boat. 18 December 2019	A close up. 18 December 2019	It was odd to look out on a rocky beach and see but one...	A single gentoo penguin on the blackened rocks. 18...
Taking a larger view of the blue waters and sky above our...	Heading back to Ushuaia, the ship once again churning up...	A picture of our beds, with their odd but effective...	Our passage through the Drake went quicker than...	A dreary day, but we were viewing Cape Horn, how cool is...	Fully docked and we were free to disembark and spend some...
The MV Corinthian docked in Ushuaia, taken from main...	The Ushuaia Obelisk. It marks the center of Ushuaia. ...	We spent our last night, indeed, our last night in South...	At home in Madison, about two months later, the snow plow...

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