Drake Passage, Antarctica, Antarctica Today was our second day on the ship, with nothing much to see or do. We had breakfast and then they called us up to the library by deck so we could settle our bills. We could pay by credit card, and everything was in US dollars, and it was all a very easy process. We took a tour of the ship with Danny today and it was interesting to find out that this was NOT…
Drake Passage, Antarctica, Antarctica We started heading back through the Drake Passage last night and it is so much smoother than the first time we passed through. I heard a couple of references to “Drake Lake” last night while I was in the bar and I didn’t get it, but now I do. This water is just about as calm as a lake, so no excitement of dishes flying or anything like that. Ryan and I hung out in the…
Drake Passage, Antarctica, Antarctica Today was our second day at sea, and it was another rough one. Last night while I was sleeping, everything that was on the desk next to my bed slid off and hit me in the face. The last thing to hit me was my tripod that got me right in the eye. That was when I decided to finally get up and take everything off the desk and put it on the floor. I just…
Drake Passage, Antarctica, Antarctica Today was a pretty rough day at sea for us. I had a really weird night’s sleep on the ship for our first night too. We came into the Drake Passage during the night, so the seas got rougher toward the morning. I never felt sick at all, but I did move around a lot while I was sleeping due to the rolling of the ship. I also had to pee about five times during the…
Drake Passage, Antarctica, Antarctica We got up and packed up our few things and headed out of the hotel by about 11am. We were supposed to leave our big bags at the hotel for the tour company to pick up and they would bring them straight to the ship. We didn’t have a lot of instructions though, so we just wrote Exodus/One Ocean on some tape and left it on the bags. Since we weren’t confident about this process, we…