Our days at port are always emotional and hectic. Emotional because we bid farewell to our departing p...

Today, we are pleased to offer the thoughts of a guest blogger, autho...

Like a bookend, the Drake Passage always marks the end of a voyage to Antarctica- in this part of the wo...

Today we had wonderful weather to explore two of the South Shetland Islands: incredibly azure skies, warm temperatures and a light breezes. ...

This morning we had actually planned to land on Vernadsky Station (the old British station Faraday), south of the Lemaire Channel, but onboa...

'Round about midnight we entered the Antarctic Sound; and in a similar fashion to Miles Davis' eponymous melody, where c...

Malcolm Lowry famously wrote about life under a volcano; today, we briefly lived under two: Paulet and B...

We woke up this morning in the caldera of Deception Island, and since the weather was terrific (= calm and sunny), we gave a second try th...

The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a novel written by George Louis Stevenson and published in 1866. It tells the story of a f...

Yes; it was an early start, BUT we managed to land on Cape Horn this morning at 6:00 am! To many of our ...

Today we returned to the Beagle Channel on our way to Puerto Williams, Cape Horn and eventually Antarctica. We started our transit with a ...

This morning we attempted a landing on Magdalena Island, where a huge colony of Magellanic Penguins make...

That sums up what we did today. We arrived in Punta Arenas late yesterday afternoon and cleared customs by 1900h. We enjoyed a nice evening ...