The moment we awoke this morning, it literally hit: Today is our last day of landings in Antarctica (and my 25th birthday). A major storm was brewing to the North-west, with wind strength exceeding 45 knots (or…
After yesterday’s sightings and events, expectations were pretty high for our second day in Antarctica. Today was quieter on the sightings front, with fewer humpbacks being seen, and seabirds certainly being more…
Today was our first real day in Antarctica, and what a day it has been! There are no words that can aptly describe all that we have experienced and felt today, but I think one of the few words that begins to cover it…
Sickness, never-ending, bed bound sickness, punctuated by the arrival of health packages in the form of lovely crackers and apples. The only saving grace was a small T.V. playing a seemingly endless number of movies,…
I was jolted awake at midnight as we hit the Drake Passage and the swell increased significantly, rocking me in bed. I roll one way, hit the wall, and then roll the other way and hit the wooden bed panels. My stomach…
We awoke in Ushuaia to the sound of the Argentine national anthem, as naval officers raised the light blue and white flag up the pole in the Argentine naval base opposite the hotel, set to the backdrop of the…
Waking up on the Friday at my mum’s house in Edinburgh I still didn’t quite believe that I would soon be starting my long journey to reach Ushuaia, Argentina where a boat would take our group to the Antarctic…
Even though our direction was northward bound (from St Andrews), our visit to the RRS Discovery in Dundee felt like a step closer to Antarctica. When the masts of the ship appeared on the horizon lyrics from “Dr.…
In early December, a team of polar enthusiasts from the School of Biology in St Andrews (Dr Sonja Heinrich, Dr Rebecca Kinnear and 5 postgraduate students), visited St Columba’s R C Primary School in Cupar. As part of…
So we’ve been back from Antarctica for almost 2 months …. but the journey is not over…. for many of the Antarctic expeditioners this is a time of transition…. Our senior honours team members have finished their studies…