Another day in the Falkland Islands! We sailed overnight from Stanley (eastern side of the eastern island) to Saunders, which is the fourth largest island and is closer to the east island. Saunders is known for the thousands of “bird pairs” they have such as albatross, caracaras, and five species of penguins. As happens with...
Continue readingWow – another great day! This was our first landing on the Falkland Islands. Where on earth are the Falklands you ask? About 300 miles east of Argentina, waaaay out in the Atlantic Ocean. There are two parts to the blog – the first is about the Falklands, as well as the war that took...
Continue readingThis was our first at sea day, meaning we were sailing, made no stops, and haven’t seen land of any form for over 24 hours. Out of the Beagle Channel, and on into the Drake Passage. Since we were ship-bound there isn’t a lot to share. Well, maybe sharing that we closed down the bar...
Continue readingLeaving off mere hours from Day 2…. Up at 2:40, breakfast at 3 am, and in the bud by 4 am. Although we were tired, this was relatively easy considering there were no bags to pack! It was, as our British friends say, “chucking buckets” in BA with quite a wind (in other words…raining hard...
Continue readingDay 2 (still a flight day…thanks to the delay!) Sleeping overnight in the Miami airport is not the ideal start to our adventure. We were so glad to get on the 7:30 flight…. and then they announced a delay. A DELAY?! Thankfully it was only 15 mins. We loaded and finally set off for...
Continue readingTravel day! Normally not much to report, but once again we have a story to tell… The flight to Dallas Fort Worth international went smoothly. Got to have lunch in DFW, but no, not here: Ater lunch we hopped onto our flight to Miami. Got there in plenty of time only to discover that our...
Continue readingWe normally have nothing to report on our return travel day/days, which is a good thing. But we wanted to share a last small couple of things that usually wouldn’t be worth mentioning in the blog, but since you weren’t able to go with us on the original booking in 2020 (small little world-wide pandemic),...
Continue readingOur last full day on the Fridtjof Nansen and our last full day in Argentina! No fun activities in the morning. Our bags have to be out by 21:00 tonight and we have an activity planned until 20:00 so the main objective today was to be mostly packed by lunch time. The afternoon/early evening activity...
Continue readingAnother day in Ushuaia, Argentina and another outing in Ushuaia, Argentina. Due to incoming ships, our ship had to leave the dock and anchor in the bay, requiring us to tender to and from the ship and shore. The boat is anchored at one end, which we know because the landscape we see from our...
Continue readingAnother day in Ushuaia, Argentina…. And another amazing weather day! We mention the weather because they somewhat describe their weather as we do in the Midwest, but on steroids. Their weather can literally change every hour, which isn’t surprising since they’re squished between the ocean and mountains. Rain was in the forec...
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