DRAKE PASSAGE, 61 SOUTH, 59 WEST -- Greetings from the Drake Passage, on board the M/S Expedition with G Adventures!
We are having the experience of a lifetime thus far and I am loving every second of this.
Currently about 85 nautical miles from Antarctica - we should arrive this evening. So exciting!!!
Not sure if this post will even work - I am writing more on my laptop daily to update when I get back, but will try to make short posts from the ship computers as time/access/signal allow.
Currently in some overcast but dry skies. Air temperature in the low 40s, which isn't bad, but we have 40mph winds blasting us, which makes for some COLD wind chills, plus seas are at 15-20 feet squalls, which combined with the dark waters at the freezing mark (we are now in the Antarctic convergence, a biological near-dead-zone that pretty much only allows krill, seals, penguins, and whales in), making for one beautiful scene from the deck!
Yesterday I was on the "bridge," where the Captain and officers steer and work the ship, and was one of three people to see our first whale!
Alright - more updates as they are possible.
I leave you with a quote from a lecture yesterday with regards to bird-watching... "Everyone is a closet birder. It just takes the right bird to take you out of the closet!"
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