The Coral Princess

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This post serves as the […]

Beginning the Journey Home

“See them all in sad repair Demons dance everywhere Southern gales, tattered sails And none to tell the tales All around old Cape Horn Ships of the line, ships of the morn Those who wish they’d never been born They are the ghosts of Cape Horn” Gordon Lightfoot The final morning in Antarctica delivered […]

Another Amazing Day in Antarctica

“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.” Will Rogers With sunrise before three, a summer day starts early in Antarctica. During the night, the ship meandered about trying to navigate to the Esperanza Base, gingerly avoiding […]

Pelagic Penguinarial Pursuits

“It’s practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.” Joe Moore Sorry for the delay in posting, but satellite internet connections at the bottom of the Southern Hemisphere work painstakingly slow, when they work at all. Anyways, a Christmas Eve in the Falkland Islands, one we will never forget. In the Falkland […]

Christmas Eve Day in the UK

“Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.” Henry David Thoreau About three hundred miles east of the South American Patagonian coast, the Falkland Island archipelago consists of nearly eight hundred islands, covering 4,700 square miles. The capital of Port Stanley […]

Still Heading South

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T. S. Eliot During the night, the winds retreated as did the waves. The South Atlantic replaced her fifteen foot swells and gale force winds with more […]

Rio, The Beginnings

“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old […]

Salvador da Bahia

“In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.” Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva Since leaving the Caribbean, the weather has been a little cooler, despite crossing the equator, with high temperatures in the low eighties. We found this to be very close to […]

Martinique

“Well now, if I ever live to be an old man, I’m gonna sail down to Martinique. I’m gonna buy me a sweat stained Bogart suit and an African parakeet.” Jimmy Buffett The island of Martinique is an overseas area of France, part of the European Union, using the Euro as its currency with […]

St Kitts and Nevis

“A promise must never be broken.” Alexander Hamilton Invasion : an incursion by a large number of people or things into a place or sphere of activity; inundation; inrush; rush; flood; torrent; deluge; stream; avalanche; an unwelcome intrusion into another’s domain. The smallest sovereign nation in the Western Hemisphere in both population, about […]