Antarctica trip

These are photos of my trip to Antarctica that took me on a 14 day expedition to as far south as as 66º33.3' S Latitude, which is just south of the Antartic Circle on March 4 of this year, 2007. Our first stop was Deception Island, the caldera of an active volcano, located just a short distance from the site of the sinking of the ship similar to the one I was
on. You may have seen the news lately of the sinking of the M/S Explorer. Mine was
the M/S Andrea.

It took two days of very rough seas to reach Antarctica waters and we spend 5 days cruising
and landing on a varietyof interestingsites to view wild life, mostly penguins and seals and birds. From the ship itself we saw many different whales some right along side the vessel,
humpbacks, minckes and orcas primarily. Of course there were dolphins and lots of swimming penguins also.