Antarctica - There and Back

Extremely wrong, but funny map from the 1519 Fri Dec 8, 2000 Ushuaia, Argentina	The prison turned museum Fri Dec 8, 2000 Ushuaia, Argentina	Tom, the convict Fri Dec 8, 2000 Ushuaia, Argentina
The Molchanov before departure Sat Dec 9, 2000 Ushuaia, Argentina	The stern of the Molchanov in front of Ushuaia Fri Jan 1, 1999 Ushuaia, Argentina	Cheerers send us off Fri Jan 1, 1999 Ushuaia, Argentina
The sun on an island in the Beagle Channel Fri Jan 1, 1999 Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego	Sun hidden behind clouds on the Beagle Fri Jan 1, 1999 Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego	Anchor chains on the Molchanov Fri Jan 1, 1999 Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego
Sun on mountains in the Beagle Channel Fri Jan 1, 1999 Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego	Us in the life boat during the drill Fri Jan 1, 1999 Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego	Dropping off the pilot at 11pm Fri Jan 1, 1999 Near the end of the Beagle Channel, Antarctic Ocean
Al, Peter, and Matt preparing the kayaks Sat Dec 9, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean	Five fin whales! Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean	Fin of the fin whale Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean
A blow while another surfaces Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean	Two fin whales showing off Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean	They got really close to the boat Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean
More fin whales Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean	They kept surfacing Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean	Cape petrels flying around the boat Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean
Two fin whales Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean	Big blow Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean	Tom adjusts his rudder Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean
Tom checks the foot pedals Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean	Gathering in the bar Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean	Our expedition leader Peter Sun Dec 10, 2000 Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean
Louisa peeks over the binoculars Fri Dec 15, 2000	The snowy tip of the Antarctic Peninsula falls into the sea Fri Dec 15, 2000	The Japanese film crew gets us steaming through the brash ice Fri Dec 15, 2000
Folks take pictures of a sculpted iceberg we pass near Fri Dec 15, 2000	Large sea ice floes - the one ahead is the size of a big conference room Fri Dec 15, 2000	Looking down at the bow as we crash into the 1-2m thick floe Fri Dec 15, 2000
The ship breaks off refrigerator-sized chunks of ice Fri Dec 15, 2000	The ice floes are at least 1m thick Fri Dec 15, 2000	The ship goes over some, pushes others aside Fri Dec 15, 2000
Looking back at the floes we've crashed through Fri Dec 15, 2000	Looking down again, at the crack we've made Fri Dec 15, 2000	Admiring a huge tabular berg broken from the Weddell ice shelf Fri Dec 15, 2000
The berg seems to go on for miles Fri Dec 15, 2000	You can see the striations of years of snowfall, and the cracks as it melts Fri Dec 15, 2000	A huge berg slopes down to the sea Fri Dec 15, 2000
The windswept and snow-covered Antarctic Peninsula Fri Dec 15, 2000	A huge berg floats in front of the peninsula Fri Dec 15, 2000	More giant bergs float in the Weddell Sea Fri Dec 15, 2000
An incredibly symmetric wedge-shaped berg Fri Dec 15, 2000	We cruised around the wedge-shaped berg Fri Dec 15, 2000	Looking up the slope of the berg Fri Dec 15, 2000
Orcas blowing and surfacing Fri Dec 15, 2000	Two of the orcas surfaced near the boat! Fri Dec 15, 2000	An orca fin breaks the water Fri Dec 15, 2000
Looking back at the wedge-shaped berg Fri Dec 15, 2000	Spray comes over the bow, in 4-6m seas Sat Dec 16, 2000	The seawater flows into the scuppers Sat Dec 16, 2000
The spray reaches as high as the bridge windshield, on level 5! Sat Dec 16, 2000	We crash through another wave Sat Dec 16, 2000	Disembarking in Ushuaia Mon Dec 18, 2000
Tom and Peter singing in the airport Tue Dec 19, 2000	We made it home for Christmas! Fri Dec 22, 2000

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Revised: Tue Jan 29 16:16:08 2008 on www.shieldsaroundtheworld.com.
Copyright © 2000 Tom & Louisa Shields. All rights reserved.