Of rough beauty and usually, under the moodiest of the weather, South Shetlands were the first Antarctic lands ever sighted. Controversial reports date it back all the way to 1598, when the Dutch merchant Dirck Gherritz, on...
Ship Cruise at Edinburgh Hill and night at anchor at Half Moon Island. A day at sea with good whale sightings, live music in the deckhouse, spectacular views of the South Shetland Islands, and a good...
Old glacier bergy bits and young sheets of single-year sea ice growl against Europa’s classical steel riveted hull. Large icebergs leave narrow passages in between, then drifting pack ice bands surround areas of open...
A night of detours around thick bands of pack ice brought us this morning to the southern shores of Joinville Island. A characteristic rocky headland sticks out of the ice cap that covers most of it. Amongst vertical...
Bands of growlers and bergy bits drifting together with sheets of sea ice lay on our path as the ship steers her way from her anchorage in the Herbert Sound towards the northern coasts of Vega, where the picturesque Devil...
After the few adventurous days of crossing from the Falklands to Antarctica, from now on and for the next few days we will try to venture into the icy and treacherous waters at the East of the Antarctic Peninsula, right at...
Antarctica. The mythical hidden southern continent for so long. Not sighted nor first trodden by human feet until the 19th Century. Today the Europa heads straight into the Weddell Sea, “ according to the testimony of...
Grey. Out of the fog like oceanic ghosts come today flocks of the grey Southern Fulmars. Mist, reduced visibility sometimes of just about 100 meters, grey skies that merge with the ocean in...
The Screaming 60’s welcome us with light winds and calm seas. Motor sailing our way north of the South Orkney Islands. Black and white. Their upper wings show the colors of the day. Spread over their...
Following the wind shifts sailing close hauled towards Antarctica. Using the engines to plan the trip with a detour north of the ice surrounding the South Orkney Islands. Following the general trend of...