(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Extra-late sleep in today. My wife and son are up early to take in Kevin’s presentation on his epic adventure sailing on Enterprise Neptune,…
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Antarctica to Zimbabwe – Day 54 – Silver Wind
(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) It’s… (drumroll) another sea day! I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, part of me is genuinely sad that the cruise is…
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Antarctica to Zimbabwe – Day 53 – Silver Wind
(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Up late again this morning, ready just in time for last-minute seating at the Restaurant. I am rewarded with some delicious banana pancakes: Our…
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Antarctica to Zimbabwe – Day 52 – Silver Wind
(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Breakfast in the room this morning. Swells were somewhere over 4 metres last night – bad enough that I was rolled side-to-side in my…
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Antarctica to Zimbabwe – Day 51 – Silver Wind, Tristan Da Cunha
(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) We’re not due to depart from the ship until 8:30 am, but there’s a chance that timings might be moved up. So we’re up…
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Antarctica to Zimbabwe – Day 50 – Silver Wind
(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Up around 8:30 am this morning so that I can get an early start staring at Windy – erm, breakfast. (Conditions do look slightly…
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Antarctica to Zimbabwe – Day 49 – Silver Wind
(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) We’d planned to head to sleep immediately after last night’s dinner at La Dame, but it did not quite work out that way. Our…
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Antarctica to Zimbabwe – Day 48 – Silver Wind
(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Fun Fact – Did you know that when swells come in from multiple directions, they can combine to form even larger swells? So that…
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Antarctica to Zimbabwe – Day 47 – Silver Wind
(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) First sea day after a long stretch at South Georgia, and we are making the most of it – by making the least of…
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Antarctica to Zimbabwe – Day 46 – Silver Wind, South Georgia
(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Early morning for our final push. Jamie promises only to wake us if there is good news regarding the landing at Saint Andrew’s Bay,…
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