Suppose Antarctica would go away you chilly? Suppose once more!
The vista is a desolate and icy wilderness, barren and but considerable. Drifts of snow stretch on eternally atop craggy rock formations and throughout huge, glittering ice fields. Towering glaciers attain from sea to sky, blinding white to the deepest blue. Hulking icebergs jut up from the water’s floor like mighty alabaster sculptures, calved chunks of them floating lazily throughout the floor of the frigid turquoise waters. Within the distance, a herd of trunk-nosed elephant seals is gathered on snow-dusted rocks—I can hear their bellowing roar from right here and I watch as a number of propel themselves into the water and glide out of sight. In my peripheral imaginative and prescient, I catch the fluke of a humpback whale simply earlier than he dives beneath the floor. And there–proper over there on that ice floe–are the superstars of the Antarctica wildlife present: A colony of penguins, some as tall as toddlers, wobbling one behind the opposite in a comical dance that makes me smile.
Proper about now, those that know me greatest are questioning this story’s by-line and I don’t blame them. Cruising, to me, was all the time crammed with fiery Caribbean sunsets over sapphire blue seas, historic ruins or historic websites and plenty of purchasing. Pre-cruise purchases had been by no means made at Dick’s Sporting Items and I’d by no means even heard of waterproof pants or little holders to maintain an iPhone dry. I by no means feared crusing a physique water a lot that I left residence armed with drugs just like the movement illness arm of a Colombian drug cartel.
Earlier than my expedition to Antarctica and the maiden voyage of Atlas Ocean Voyages’ all-inclusive World Voyager, I used to be apprehensive—very apprehensive—in regards to the continent’s unpredictable and harsh surroundings and my capability to adapt to it. However like the perfect expeditions, this voyage has resulted in some outstanding discoveries: An appreciation for the stark magnificence to be present in a biting and unforgiving land and the consolation, heat and luxurious of World Voyager.
The mix is completely extraordinary.
Be a part of me for a journey to Antarctica aboard the newly launched Atlas Ocean Voyages’ World Voyager!
Coming Quickly! Half 2: Atlas Ocean Voyages’ World Voyager: En Path to Ushuaia
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