What a trip! Glad you enjoyed. BTW does penguin taste like chicken?:rofl:

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Good Golly Mr. Motor! Wasn't it cold enough for you up here? ;)

Those are some absolutely fabulous pictures! Thank you so much!

amazing pics. do you have any in hi rez or unresized, I would love to use one on my MBP background.

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Fantastic shots, MD. Glad that you decided to go after all, that it all worked out, and that it was as good as you described. Good to have you back.

Thanks, Gang, for all the props and kind words!

I do have all the pics in orig. high res files on my drive and
saved on mem. sticks. Let me know your email by PM and I'll
zing them to you or, tell me how to attach to a PM back to
you.

Thank you again for looking at my post and at the FlickR link...
the immense scale of the coastlines and coves we chugged through
and viewed are simply impossible to convey in a photo.
BR,mD&V

Beautiful - your photographic skills are amazing!

Very amazing and breath taking... the penguins are totally cute too. Sad to think how much of that ice is melting and how antarctica is shrinking according to science. But anyhoo... those pics are great, thank you for sharing MD.

So I'm not sure if you said it already, just how cold was it? Low and high if it was ever announced? Anyone try sticking a hand or finger in the water :)

Thanks, G...Temps: we had daily air temps that ranged from low 20s F, to a high one day of maybe 42 on that rare sunny day at Elephant Island chugging through "Iceberg Alley", for an hourish. Nights, while never totally dark, were in the 20s Farenheit. It was the wind on most days, that really cut through you, esp. on the windy side of the boat.

The Southern Ocean, around the Antarctic Peninsula, averaged about 29 degrees F. I put my hand in a few times in the Zodiac, just to feel it: it was numbingly cold. The Zodiac drivers, (most were renaissance men with amazing backgrounds), said we had about 3 mins max before unconsciousness, if we fell in; thus, the major league life vests that would inflate automatically when immersed in sea water, that they made us wear on any Zodiac ride or shore excursion.

Interestingly, most of the hard core Antarctic scientist types said that any "melting" thus far, of the shelf ice, seemed to be cyclical or within the std deviation, though they all felt it was affected to some degree by the climate change. The interior ice sheets, in the hard core ages old glacier producing areas, are 3.5 miles thick and actually deflect the continental plates they rest on...a factoid tossed around is that if all the ice on that continent were to melt the sea level would rise 200-250 feet.

There are areas in the barely scratched interior that receive less than 1/10th inch of precipitation per year; it come as snow obviously, and is blown around and never melts, until thousands of years later it turns up at the end of glacier oozing into the ocean...from whence all those thousands and thousands of big bergs turn up.

Class dismissed, :rofl: .
BR,mD

Nice! Pretty HARDCORE Motor! Looks breathtaking!