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THE TALLY: What we’ve seen
• Weddell Seal
• Killer Whale
• Crab Eater Seal
• Leopard Seal
• Gentoo Penguin
• Chinstrap Penguin
• Adelie Penguin
• Krill
• Wandering Albatross
• Snow Petrels
• Cape Petrel (black with patches of white)
• Great-Winged Petrel
• Blue Eyed Shag
Answers to your questions:
What do you do during the day?
o Skiing, eating, sleeping, researching
o Usually awake to…

Today we exerted our energy up newly named Mount Timone, about 400 meters up. It was crevasse-ridden and crusty. Michael went to two different mountain spots, while Rebecca came back to the boat and got ready for our live feeds to a radio and middle school. The sun finally came out today!
The Internet connection was dodgy, but we were able to answer most of the questions before cutting out.…

It’s Michael and Rebecca again reporting from Paradise Bay, Antarctica. We skinned and skiied 100 feet up in brisk headwind, but we overcame the weather and powered on. There are four of us, including a guide, in our ski group. At the base of the mountain there were many hundreds of gentoo penguins, with the exception of one Adelie penguin. Michael also spotted krill on a broken ice pack, the…

It’s our first day ashore! Male penguins were putting nests together with pebbles, beckoning their girlfriends and fighting against other males who tried to steal the precious black stones. We learned that males build big nests with the biggest stones possible in order to impress their girlfriend penguins. There are eleven species of penguins in Antarctica, and today we saw gentoo colonies. There were seemingly thousands of penguins about a…

Hey! We Made It! It’s cold and icy and even snowing outside over the water. We saw massive brown rocks almost totally covered with snow, and the water is easy. Time to get some snacks and listen to a lecture on Antarctica’s rocks! Rebecca is studying geology, so it’s very informative.
-Rebecca and Michael

REBECCA:
Today after closing up on the seasick lollipops (strawberry flavor,) and wearing accupressure wrist bands, we stretched our legs up on deck. In the morning, there were many different types of birds, including an albatross and petrels. The albatross we saw was a Wondering Albatross and this type of albatross has a wing span of 330 cm!
The Drake Passage is fairly calm except for a few rough patches…

REBECCA:
Date: November 9
Temp: 8 Degrees C
Weather Conditions: Fine
Wind: Blowing Behind the Ship
This afternoon, we set sail on the ultimate adventure to Antarctica. The weather was a bit drizzly, but no wind struck Ushuia Bay as we boarded our ocean blue ship, the Clipper Adventurer.
The ship had sailed fown from the North Pole, so it had made quite the journey, though she looked in fighting…

Hello from the End of the World! It’s Rebecca, Michael and Chelsea here. Today was the final day in Ushuia before getting onto the boat, and we made the most of the city. Rebecca and Michael checked out a beaver colony in the hills the day previous, and today we explored the city prison and museum. Ushuia was a penal colony, similar to Australia, and so the whole history dating…

The crew is getting ready to depart from California to Ushuaia, Argentina.