Leaving Patagonia – I was happy about two very different things: 1. For many years I had wanted to visit Patagonia, and I had managed to see all the major sites I had wanted to see. 2. After weeks of not getting enough sleep due to the ridiculously short summer nights that far south, I […]
I left El Calafate early on a bus headed for Puerto Natales. This meant leaving Argentina and making my way to Chile. I had completed the usual cross-border online forms, screenshot the QR codes, and was good to go. On the bus, I would bump into an Australian family from the Antarctica trip. This was […]
On my way between El Chalten and Puerto Natales, I had booked two nights in El Calafate. It is one of the more visited Patagonian towns – probably because it has the main airport in this region of the Argentine side. It is next to a large glacial lake, which is a beautiful light blue […]
After departing the MV Ushuaia, I had most of the day in Ushuaia. My next destination would be Patagonia – but we had been warned not to book early flights as the ship often returns late. Air Argentina had merged two flights, so my flight was rescheduled an hour later, meaning I’d only have a […]
After returning from Neko Harbour, it was time for the finals of the karaoke contest. Knowing that audience participation was a major factor in the judges’ decisions, Conall opted for a song that would be stuck in all our heads for the next month – Feliz Navidad. The finalists did a great job, and ultimately […]
One way I like to look at the world is to draw a box with four points on the most north, south, east and west point I’ve ever traveled to. Before 2025, my record for most south was the town of Stilbaai in South Africa, which is 34.4°S – which I visited in 2003. In […]
After our epic first day of landings – we had a karaoke contest, lead by the legendary barkeeper, Fabian. As an intro, he took the first two songs, and intentionally did them terribly to make everyone more comfortable. I suspect he would have a great voice if he was trying – but we all knew […]
After breakfast, the ship had come to a stop. We watched and waited with great anticipation as we saw the Zodiac with the guides head out to Half Moon Island, a small island in the South Shetland Islands, that would hopefully be our first landing of the trip. Nothing is guaranteed in Antarctica – you […]
A wise man once said “the reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them” – as to who that wise man was, I’ve seen this attributed to far too many people to be sure who first said in. Nonetheless, the sentiment is one I strongly agree with. Some goals are […]
For anyone who follows this blog, you may have noticed the lack of activity for more than a year. This was not due to inactivity on my side, but rather too much activity. I will hopefully catch up on everything from my Drakensberg Grand Traverse last December to my four and a half months in […]
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