It’s a journey that replenished my mal-nourished soul, that I know I will never, ever be able to top or repeat as Oceanwide Expeditions is the ONLY expedition company in the world to make this journey - and it won’t be offered again until at least 2020. It’s more than a vacation, a trip or even expedition. It’s big and sublime and magical and spiritual and superlative.
This expedition had everything – jaw dropping landscapes, whales galore, volcanoes, ice, ice and more ice of all kinds, berg, fast, sea, pancake, brash… forever sunsets, heroes, huts and of course, penguins….and I swear to God, the only thing missing was a unicorn. The Ross Sea itinerary is a 32 day odyssey, from Middle Earth across the Southern Ocean and Antarctic Circle to 78° S into the mysterious Ross Sea, a mere 720 miles from the South Pole, circumnavigating the Great White Continent, along the Ross Ice Shelf and through ice strewn seas that maybe a few hundred of the most bravest souls have ever sailed, up the peninsula and along sailing routes established by legendary explorers with names like Drake, Darwin and Magellan, to ‘round the horn and our final destination, half a world away, in Patagonia. I’m rarely at a loss for words and yet I struggle to find just the right way describe it. I've been to Antarctica twice before and this is by far the most memorable experience of my life. I’ve traveled the world since my parents threw me in the back of our 1969 Buick station wagon to discover America and had many “once in a lifetime” experiences –watched a lion kill, got stuck in enemy tunnels, danced in a tent with 5000 lederhosen clad men, doing my best to keep up, stared into the midnight black eyes and razor sharp smile of a Great White, lingered in the blown out caldera of an active volcano, walked the Red Carpet with Hollywood legends, found myself in front rooms, back rooms and secret rooms, felt the cold steal of a machine gun against my back in one desert and been smothered in unconditional love in the another.
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As I sat down to write this piece I struggled with how to convey the incredible experience I had with Oceanwide Expeditions to the bottom of the world on their Ross Sea itinerary.
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