After our record of reaching the southern most point of voyage at Bay of Whales, we are now heading to Peter I island. This will be a long 7 day long cruising without any zodiac activity. The shorter route of 6 day cruising has been blocked by packed ice so our captain chose this safer…

The day started with excitement as we were heading to the Bay of Whales for scenic cruising. Our ship captain cruised to the Bay of Whales through the night in foggy and very cold conditions and our captain did a great job of avoiding ice on our way to Bay of Whales. We reached early…

Today started with a zodiac cruise at Cape Crozier which is at the eastern end of the massive Ross Sea Ice. With air temperature of -7C and wind of 25 miles, windchill was very severe but it was sunny and clear. So it was a beautiful summer day in Antarctica! This place is just amazing…

Today’s highlight at Cape Evans was the Terra Nova expedition hut. We also hiked about a mile to see the glacier and Scott’s South Pole exploration starting point. The Tera Nova hut is also respected and is very well restored and taken care by NZ Heritage Group. After Cape Evans we visited Hut Point (which…

We started the day with visit to Cape Bird. We went ashore on zodiacs and this was first time we were allowed to freely roam (almost as we did have restrictions to avoid skua chicks). We walked towards a Glacier. It was very interesting contrast with volcanic rock and gravel and the glacier. And of…

Before I write about our visit to these famous huts on Ross Islands, near McMurdo sound, let me just summarize in few lines my recollection of the history of these expedition heroes. After Ross explored the Antarctic waters and mapped out the land area in 1890s, people realized that the south pole is close from…

Shraddha: Our expedition team has been trying very hard to give us the best experiences and opportunities. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. We arrived to Possession Island early in the morning and the team sent out a scout boat to figure out best landing sites. The plan was to find a post mail…

Author: Shraddha The day started with absolutely stunning sunrise. A beautiful day to welcome us to the great white continent of Antartica. We reached Cape Adare (it is a pointy tip on the Antartica continent) that has lot of history of past expeditions. It was appropriate that we placed our feet on this continent where…

Author:Mayuresh Antartica is truly the 7th continent where this land mass is vast and packed with ice. Just happens to be far away at the south pole and so aptly named opposite of Arctic i.e. Antarctic. We reached 60 degree south latitude yesterday to enter in the Antarctic waters. However with crossing the 66 degree…

We left Mcquarie islands yesterday in the capable hands of the Australian park rangers to protect the Royal and King penguins. The rookery (penguin poop) smells are so strong that it just refuses to get out of your system. Day 7 and Day 8 were sea days and refreshingly nice. It gave us chance to…