Port Lockroy Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

Sunrise 02:23, sunset 00:08 (Dec 14!)We woke up to a glorious beautiful blue bird day here in Port Lockroy on Wiencke Island. The bay is calm like glass, at 32F degrees, it was actually quite warm! Port Lockroy would be the only place on Antarctica where we would see people, and there were only 2 people here! There were a small post office where people can send mail (UK stamp no less) from the southernmost post office on earth to their friends and family. There was also a small museum showing…

Early Monday morning we sailed through the Lemaire Channel on the M/V Antarctic Dream. It is a very narrow and scenic channel, but the weather was too foggy to see much of it. The first landing was at Yalour Islands, where we got to see the adélie penguins, that we had not seen before. In the afternoon we did a zodiac tour among some large icebergs near Pléneau Island. Even after a few days in Antarctica, it was still amazing to see these huge blocks of ice. We even managed to see a leopard…

Date: 17-02-07 Girard bay to Portlockroy Position                     64˚49’.S           063˚29’.W Weather: Wind: var 1                        Temperature: 0 morning 2,6 afternoon At midnight we celebrate 2 birthdays with popping champagne bot…