Who are these three masked men? Read on to find out...
One of the projects going on down here is to build a boat ramp to launch the zodiac boats. Zodiacs are small, inflatable, but surprisingly…
Palmer Station at daybreak. We managed to get in and dock before the sever winds picked up. Palmer Station never looked so good after our long journey to get here.
We have finally made it to…
As the ship made its way through the sea ice you could hear the ice chunks clanging against the ship.
At least that is what it looks like at night. As we traveled up to Palmer we hit some nasty…
Our route up to Palmer Station proved to be spectacular.
The crew on the LMG did an amazing job of getting us through some serious sea ice. It was impressive watching them navigate the waters,…
At every turn there were impressive icebergs standing guard along our route. For some reason the captain didn't like our idea of trying to drive the boat through this one...
We are officially within…
The hardest thing about putting together today's journal was narrowing down my pictures to just a few. Here is a smaller iceberg floating past the mountain range
In the wee hours of today our ship…
Captain Sebastian Paoni and First Mate Pete Kaple quickly switch gears to chart a course to Rothera, a British Station.
There is always a possibility for unexpected events down on the ice, aka…
Mike, the chief engineer has been working the Gould for almost a decade.
Well, I’m going to cheat a little today (or perhaps you could look at it as a two-for-one deal) and direct you to my 2011…
This lifeboat can hold up to 40 people and is made to withstand waves and ugly weather.
One of the first things to be done upon leaving the dock is to go over the safety procedures and protocol (…
Because things so frequently don't go according to plan. Here is the ship that we will be traveling on. The Laurence M. Gould.
Our sailing date has been postponed. There were still a lot of…
Actually, the weather down here is not that much colder than what I left behind in Chicago. We are going into winter down here at the southern tip of the southern hemisphere. The path to the central…
Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration. It's not even a musical yet, but our little Fish Spy got air time on WBEZ, Chicago's local National Public Radio affiliate. Lewis interviewed all of our crew. Here…
