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Antarctica and beyond

18/5/2020

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Part III: The Incredible South Georgia
PictureLaunching The James Caird at Elephant Island
Well its two full days at sea from Elephant Island heading north to get to South Georgia, a journey of some 1,300 miles. We are following in the "footsteps" of Shackleton and his crew of 5 aboard the 22.5 ft lifeboat The James Caird as they left the camp at Point Wild in search of rescue. They took 16 days to reach the southern coast of South Georgia, and legend has it that they were only able to take 3 sextant readings on the entire passage but still nailed it! What an incredible journey. 


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Antarctica and Beyond

11/5/2020

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Part II: Deception Island and Elephant Island
From the Antarctic Peninsula we cross The Bransfield Straits again and back to the southern end of the South Shetland Islands. It was a  fairly calm crossing and we arrive in the early morning at Deception island.
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    Lynda is slowly getting used to the transition from working to not working and racing to cruising. 

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