by Adventure Scientists | Jan 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Glorious GearPosted by Trinity on Thursday, January 26, 2012Nearly four months and over one thousand kilometers on the trail, we can tell you the good (our packs), the bad (Steripen), and the ugly (Sarah’s t-shirt) with regard to our gear. We...
by Adventure Scientists | Jan 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Port Lockroy — If there is a human population center along the Antarctic Peninsula, this is it. While there may be hundreds of thousands of penguins, tens of thousands of seals, whales and sea birds that call this remote stretch home, few people do.But at...
by Adventure Scientists | Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Right on time!Posted by Trinity on Thursday, January 19, 2012We finally have been able to get the pictures from our Villa O’Higgins to Cochrane leg (when we stayed with gaucho Don Rial) on the blog. Check that blog post out here: Thankful for...
by Adventure Scientists | Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
We woke tied-off to the rusted hulk of a half-sunken Norwegian whaling ship. Its story is legend along the Peninsula for having caught fire a century ago during a sail-away party, its stores of whale oil afire lighting up the sky for several days. Now it is just...
by Adventure Scientists | Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
When one or two people tell us we have to do this or that, we note it and see if it fits in. By the time the sixth person told us we have to raft “the Fu” we decided to escape the heat of summer and stop off in Futaleufu to take on the...