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Great Voyages make Great Memories
I will always remember our voyage to ANTARCTICA in January 2023!
14 days of amazing experiences and surprises, Bob and Keri AXON!
WE sailed the SAPPHIRE PRINCESS from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Falkland Islands then across the windy Drake Passage. We toured 4 days along the Antarctic Peninsula then sailed north to Santiago, Chile. Antarctica is an ice-covered continent, only discovered recently. It actually is over 150 million year old and made with volcanic rock that formed a continent twice the size of Australia. We encountered 150 km wind and waves 12 metres high in the Drake Passage. 6 different varieties of penguins inhabit the rocky shores.
Icebergs composed of 1o,ooo year old blue ice are formed by massive calving glaciers. Antarctica is the only continent known for Floating ice sculptures, and amazing stories of heroism about earlier explorers. Penguins, Humpback Whales, Orcas seals and Walruses were spotted along the shores of Antarctica. Surrounded by the cold and vicious Southern Ocean, human visitors other than wildlife are very rare across the desert wasteland.
