2006/12/19 & 20 - Tuesday Evening & Wednesday | Cruising down the Beagle Channel and through the Drake Passage while birding off the back of the ship's Promenade Deck |
2006/12/21 - Thursday | Cruising the Drake Passage en route to the Antarctic Peninsula |
2006/12/22 - Friday | Hike from Bailey Head to Whaler's Bay on Deception Island, a beautifully shaped caldera that last erupted in 1970 |
2006/12/23 - Saturday | Cuverville Island visit, Zodiac cruising Paradise Bay, and sailing the Lemaire Channel, a seven mile long by one mile wide channel |
2006/12/24 - Sunday | Zodiac cruising Foyn Harbour/Enterprise Island and landing on our fourth continent, Antarctica, at Portal Point |
2006/12/25 - Monday | Morning landing on Half Moon Island and a late afternoon landing on Penguin Island, a very nice island, to climb Deacon Peak on this former volcano |
2006/12/26 - Tuesday | Morning landing on Paulet Island, a crater island with a large Adelie Penguin colony and an afternoon landing at Devil Island |
2006/12/27 - Wednesday | Morning Zodiac cruising around Elephant Island, a desolate place where twenty-two members of Shackleton's Endurance expedition spent 135 days in 1915 after being stranded |
2006/12/28 - Thursday | All landings (including Moon Bay) at the South Orkney Islands cancelled because of weather and ice |
2006/12/29 - Friday | Sailing to South Georgia |
2006/12/30 - Saturday | Landing at Grytviken, South Georgia |
2006/12/31 - Sunday | Sunrise landing at Gold Harbour on South Georgia Island with great views of the towering snow-covered peaks of Mt. Paterson followed by a landing at Godthul, South Georgia Island (substituted for Saint Andrews because of weather) later in the morning |
2007/01/01 - Monday | Concentrating on the north coast of South Georgia Island with a morning landing at Salisbury Plain to see King Penguins followed by a later morning landing at Prion Island located in the Bay of Isles to see the magnificent Wandering Albatrosses with an afternoon Zodiac cruise around Right Whale Bay and a twilight Zodiac cruise at Elsehul |
2007/01/02 - Tuesday | On board the Clipper Adventurer in the Southern Ocean sailing by Shag Island as we head to the Falkland Islands |
2007/01/03 - Wednesday | On board the Clipper Adventurer in the Southern Ocean sailing to the Falkland Islands under worsening weather conditions |
2007/01/04 - Thursday | No photographs today as we are on board the Clipper Adventurer heading at a speed of 5-6 knots towards the Falkland Islands while enduring 30 foot seas and winds at 65 knots (will we ever get off this ship???) |
2007/01/05 - Friday | Finally made it to the Falkland Islands with a morning stop at George Island at the southern entrance to Falkland Sound and an afternoon stop at Bleaker Island south of East Falkland |
2007/01/06 - Saturday | Arrived at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, for a morning birding hike at the top end of Cape Pembroke, lunch at the Upland Goose in Port Stanley and an afternoon departure to Santiago, Chile, from Mt. Pleasant Airport |