Cruise Day 10 South Shetland Islands
Greetings to all! It is Jan 13th, 2023, and we have started our return to Chile. As we trek north we have two stops today, first at Half Moon Island and then at nearby...
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Cruise Day 9 Neko Harbor and Cuverville Island
Greetings, all! Today is 12 Jan, 2023. We are gliding through ice as we enter Neko Harbor. Schalk, the expedition lead, says this is his favorite place to land! The ice is thick in...
Cruise Day 8 Damoy and Port Lockroy
Greetings, everyone! It is 11 Jan, 2023, and we wake to snow! Snow! In Antarctica? Didn’t anyone tell Mother Nature it is summertime here? Wink wink! We sailed through heavy seas as we made...
Cruise Day 7 Detaille Island and Polar Plunge
Greetings, all, from south of the Antarctic Circle! It is 10 Jan, 2023, and we are at 66 degrees 55 minutes South latitude, the farthest south we’ve ever been, and may ever be! At...
Cruise Day 6 Pleneau Island and Petermann Island
Greetings, again, all! Today is Jan 9th, 2023! We have two excursions planned for today. The first is a zodiac ride around the waters of Pleneau Island, and the second is a landing on...
Cruise Day 5 Curtiss Bay and Spert Island
Greetings, everyone! Today is Jan 8th, 2023, and we have our next two excursions today – a landing in Curtiss Bay and a zodiac ride around Spert Island. As we glide into the bay...
Cruise Day 4 Antarctic Sound
Greetings, all! Today is Jan 7th, 2023, and we are in the Antarctic Sound. This is the area at the very north tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. We wake to see our first real...
Cruise Day 1, 2, and 3 – Drake Passage Crossing
Greeting, everyone! I begin this post on Jan 4th, 2023, with our evening arrival and boarding of the Silver Cloud. Count this as Day 1 of the cruise. As I mentioned in the previous...
Travel Day 3 and Embarkation
Greetings, everyone! This post picks up on Jan 4th, 2023, at the Santiago Airport, WITH our luggage! Yay! We find the Silversea representative and he escorts us to the area they are collecting folks....
Travel Days 1 and 2 Flying to Santiago, Chile
Greetings, all! I’m gonna catch you up on what has transpired to this point! Pardon me for providing too much information, but I gotta get this off my chest… I don’t have many photos...
Antarctica Itinerary
Greetings, all! And Happy New Year! We are preparing for our upcoming tour to Antarctica! We’re sailing on the Silversea Silver Cloud. Here is the map. The itinerary is simple – 2 days at...
Ed’s and Joy’s Adventure Post-Cruise Final Analysis
In this post I want to give you some of our statistics: We sailed 196 days! Many on the cruise joined us in Los Angeles for the 180 day cruise. The ship nominally holds...
Port 103 New York City, New York!!
Hello, everybody! On the morning of the 4th of July, 2022, we are finally out of the fog as we sail into New York’s harbor! The sun is coming up as we approach! Manhattan...
Port 102 St. John’s, Newfoundland
Hello! We arrive at St. John’s, Newfoundland, under foggy skies on 1 Jul, 2022. But before that I wanna show you this! We had a special celebration for just the Around The World (or...
Port 101 Belfast, United Kingdom
Dia duit! (Good morning!) It is yet another gray, drizzly morning when we arrive in Belfast, Ireland, on 26 Jun, 2022! I overslept and wake to find our tug already pulling us around so...
Port Abort Dun Laoghaire (Dublin), Ireland
The title says it all. We are supposed to tender today, but due to continued bad weather (high winds today – the sun is shining!) our stop is cancelled. We will have a sea...
Port 100 Cobh, Ireland
Dia duit! La maith agat! (Hello! Good morning!) Rain! Rain! Rain! Waterford was to be a tender port, but due to heavy winds the ship announced at 10:30 PM last night our port will...
Port 99 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hallo! Goedemorgen! (Hello! Good morning!) The weather is near perfect as we enter the river to Amsterdam on 21 Jun, 2022! On the starboard side a pretty lighthouse complex is near an old fortress...
Port 98 Tilbury, United Kingdom
Hello! Good morning! (Hello! Good morning!) I want to start with an apology for my absence. My computer crashed and still has problems staying connected to the internet, plus we had to begin packing...
Port 97 Honfleur, France Take 2
Bonjour! We return to the port of Honfleur for a second visit on 18 Jun, 2022. We were just here a few weeks ago, on 6 Jun – D-Day! – so I don’t worry...
