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Sailing Into A Volcano In Antarctica

Sailing Into A Volcano In Antarctica

by Calvin Sun | Dec 24, 2013 | Antarctica, Crisis, How's the weather?, Lessons Learned, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2013: Antarctica, Winter 2013: Antarctica to Pakistan

  Day 4: There’s only 2 places in the world where you can sail directly into a volcano. The first one is Santorini, Greece (yawn), the second one is Deception Island in Antarctica:     And we got exactly the kind of epic weather we had been hoping...
Skinny Dipping In Antarctica (NSFW)

Skinny Dipping In Antarctica (NSFW)

by Calvin Sun | Dec 24, 2013 | Antarctica, Doctor in the House, Fail, How's the weather?, Lessons Learned, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2013: Antarctica, Winter 2013: Antarctica to Pakistan

  Antarctica Day 3 in a nutshell:     We first woke up for a quick hike up Neko Harbor:     More panoramas of Neko Harbor:     After lunch we then headed to Cuverville Island to see some Gentoo penguins:       …but...
Getting Married In Antarctica

Getting Married In Antarctica

by Calvin Sun | Dec 23, 2013 | Antarctica, How's the weather?, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2013: Antarctica, Winter 2013: Antarctica to Pakistan

Video of our sailing through the Lemaire Channel:     And cruising around our zodiacs afterwards:     We woke up the next morning near the British-operated Fort Lockroy. There we got the much-coveted passport stamps for Antarctica:     We...
First Landing In Antarctica

First Landing In Antarctica

by Calvin Sun | Dec 22, 2013 | Antarctica, Winter 2013: Antarctica, Winter 2013: Antarctica to Pakistan

  Video of our first sighting of Antarctica:     So many preview photos for an entry this time… simply because our first day in Antarctica just that stunning:     We caught our first glimpse of Antarctica and its pack ice at around 10pm...
Crossing The Drake Passage For Antarctica

Crossing The Drake Passage For Antarctica

by Calvin Sun | Dec 22, 2013 | Antarctica, How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Winter 2013: Antarctica to Pakistan

 Don’t get too seasick watching this! An epic wave occurs around the 0:26 mark:   Today we boarded for Antarctica by sailing through what has been known as the most dangerous seas on Earth, The Drake Passage.My group first gathered at 4:10pm...
The Fate That Binds Us To Antarctica

The Fate That Binds Us To Antarctica

by Calvin Sun | Dec 13, 2013 | Antarctica, Argentina, Serendipitous!, Winter 2013: Antarctica to Pakistan

    We sail in less than 3 hours. Anyone worried that it’s also the Friday the 13th? As we wait for our ship to be prepped, I look back on 3 years of travel and coincidences, how we got this trip off the ground and how at the age of 27 and within 3 years...
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