Adventure Travel Blogs

Tuesday 8th November 2011
I’m at sea on the MV Pharos SG. I’ve flown in from Santiago, had a night in Stanley (Falkland Islands) and then joined the ship. The Pharos is the fisheries patrol vessel for South Georgia, and has a remit to deter vessels from fishing illegally in the area. She’s about 60 metres long, quite comfortable but rolls a fair bit.

The Zoological Society of London’s penguinologist Tom Hart, will be journeying south again for another Antarctic field season, supported by Exodus, continuing his work looking into the secret lives of penguins. He will be joined again by fellow ZSL scientist Ben Collen to carry on their monitoring work which they established last year, and MSc student Gemma Clucas who will be working on the DNA ‘feather-printing’ project.

Penguinology
We have been working i...

Tuesday, 26th June, 2011
Longyearbyen
                    
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending; we lay waste our powers, little we see in nature is ours” 

William Wordsworth

Permit me first to remark on today’s proceedings: I’m bored of talking about the obscene level of meteorological good fortune but Alkhornet delivered yet again. Reindeer, skuas and finally, the grim reaper of the kitti...

Friday, 22nd July, 2011
Northern Spitsbergen

“In memories we were rich.  We had pierced the veneer of outside things.  We had suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole.  We had seen God in his splendor, heard the text that nature renders.  We had reached the naked soul of man.” 

Tuesday, 19th July, 2011
Hinlopen Strait

“Never doubt the ability of a few committed people to change the world, in act it’s the only thing that ever has”. Margaret Mead

Play safe and follow timetables, play safe and visit post offices, play safe and die wondering, gamble and you at least give yourself a chance of touching the elusive grail.