Antarctica, Part III
A trip to the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2020
Part III
We arrived in Neko Harbour on the morning of our sixth day to bright blue skies, still water and absolutely gorgeous reflections. As soon as we were anchored, we unloaded the zodiacs and prepared for an excursion.
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Antarctica, Part II
A trip to the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2020
The next day we crossed the Antarctic Circle around 10am. There was a celebration: the crew dressed up and wore funny hats and there were mimosas for everyone. It felt noticeably colder, but maybe that was just my imagination. Not many ships get down past the Antarctic Circle - the Ocean Nova has only been twice this year, the Magellan (the other Antarctica XXI ship) has been twice, as well.
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Antarctica, Part I
A trip to the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2020
For years I’ve been fascinated by Polar exploration and I’ve read dozens of books about explorers such as Rae, Franklin, Nansen, Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton. For all those years I never thought I’d have the chance to visit any of the places they’d explored, but I have been very lucky in the last year: in July 2019 I travelled to Greenland and, in February 2020, I visited Antarctica. Antarctica, especially, had been a dream of mine. Every year that I looked at trips they just got more expensive, but since all the clichés apply - you only live once, you can’t take it with you, trip of a lifetime, etc. – I decided it was now or never (to use another cliché!): Antarctica, February 2020 was going to happen!!
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Ice
Photographing icebergs in Greenland
In July, 2019 I went to Greenland. I was incredibly excited about this trip, not least because I’ve been semi-obsessed with reading about Polar exploration – Rae, Franklin, Nansen, Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton – since I was a kid, but also because I never thought I’d ever get to go to the Arctic.
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Hunting for Icebergs in Newfoundland
A trip to Newfoundland in June 2018,
hunting for icebergs.
In June 2018, I headed to Newfoundland, searching for icebergs. I had been to The Rock, as it is affectionately known, in 2015, visiting the Bonavista Peninsula and Gros Morne and I had seen a few icebergs, but this time I wanted to do a trip primarily focused on finding and photographing as many icebergs as I could. Icebergs, which have mostly calved from glaciers in Greenland, travel past Newfoundland every year in May, June and into July through what's called Iceberg Alley. It had been a slow start to the iceberg season, with many fewer icebergs coming down from the north than usual, but I hoped that by flying into Deer Lake and just targeting two main northern areas (Twillingate and St. Anthony) and staying in each place for a few days, I would get lucky in finding icebergs and being able to photograph them in nice conditions.
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