** ANTARCTICA - 2002 **



This is the 12 May 2005 edition of this page.

The TRAVELOGUE was started below with the 'links', but here for the moment are some quick snippets!

TRIP TO
ANTARCTICA!!

Takeoff was in the ENGLISH WINTER (or the ANTARCTIC SUMMER!)
on 3rd Dec 2002.

Travel there was via: 
Madrid
BUENOS AIRES
USHUAIA
Drake's Passage
ANTARCTIC PENINSULA
Half Moon Island
The Lemaine and Neymayr Channels
etc

and returning via

Drake's Passage
CAPE HORN
Southern Patagonia
Beagle Channel
Punta Arenas (in Chile)
SANTIAGO
Madrid

TRAVELOGUE - The Index:-

1. Flights to the Start
2. Across DRAKES PASSAGE from Cape Horn
3. Arrival at Polish Research Base of ARCTTOWSKI (Admiralty Bay)
4. Arrival at DECEPTION ISLAND (Whaler's Bay)
5. Going ashore at ALMIRANTE BROWN STATION (Argentinian)

Blue Ice (taken by friend Ron!.

6. Various channels to 'Base A Museum' (PORT LOCKROY - British)

Icebergs (taken by friend Ron!.

7. Meetings and talks with ANTARCTIC WALKER
8. Drake's Passage and a 'surprising' CAPE HORN
9. Punta Arenas
10. Santiago
11. Flights Back to UK

Digital self-portrait after the RETURN!.

However, by the start of April 2003, this beard had expanded to:-
April '03 self-portrait !.

...and by Early June 03, hairs in this growth were approaching THREE INCHES!!
June '03 self-portrait !.

Not bad for a 'baldie' eh! It was entirely removed on Monday, 16 June 2003!!

(.... Photos will be put into TRAVELOGUE in correct places, later, as it develops!....)


Return to 2002's Index-page
or return to Roy's home page for full list of books/travelogues either finished or under preparation.