We have been out to see now for an entire 24 hours. I have not been sea sick, but I know others who have spent a little time with head over the toilet bowl. I find that the motion and pitch of the waves has a comforting feeling. Drake's Passage has not been extremely rough and some of the leaders have stated it has this is the smoothest passage they have experienced. Last year some of the team were caught in a storm and the waves were similar with the videos I posted.
Today was somewhat of a free day for everyone, with the exception of a couple more brefings. After our expedtion briefings during the day, I usually go out on deck for fresh air and look out in the distance and ponder. Some of the thoughts have been how grateful I am for the the law of gravity. Ability to find beauty anywhere in the world and being grateful to experience new life changing events.We have crossed over into the Antarctic Convergence. What that means is we are officially in the Antarctic a region. The water temprature has dropped,the wind is noticably colder and the waves have been larger. While out on the deck, I was staring down at the ocean. The water is an incredible navy blue color. It looks much cleaner than what I have experienced at beachesaround the world. It is also colder water than anywhere else. A few wandering albatross have been flying in front of the ship. Tomorrow afternoon we should be landing at Antarctica and the team is pretty excited. Robert Swan told us that one of the high spots in this expedition will be the food when we are on ship. He was not kidding. The food has been a highlight thus far. I guess they are trying to build some body fat beforewe hit Antarctica.
I finished a book titled A voyage for Madmen. It is a non-fictional storyabout nine men who entered a race to see who could circumnavigate the globe without stopping. The individuals who entered this race were prepared tospend a year on the open seas before going home. Only one of them wouldmake it back. Eric Rawling a fellow HP collegue gave me the book to read.I'm going to quote the authors description of the Drake Passage."Here, Southern Ocean winds and waters and funneled through a relativleynarrow gap, Drake's [Passage], the 600-mile-wide sea passage between CapHorn and the Antarctic peninsula. The sea bottom shoals off the horn, raising the already enormous waves, and williwaws of hurricane-force windsscream down off the Andean glaciers; wind, towering waves, and ferocious currents collide, turning Cape Horn waters into a maelstrom."Tomorrow will be exciting because we receive our Zodiac boat training. These are basically reinforced rubber rafts with an engine on the back. These are the boats that will be taking us to shore.
Today was somewhat of a free day for everyone, with the exception of a couple more brefings. After our expedtion briefings during the day, I usually go out on deck for fresh air and look out in the distance and ponder. Some of the thoughts have been how grateful I am for the the law of gravity. Ability to find beauty anywhere in the world and being grateful to experience new life changing events.We have crossed over into the Antarctic Convergence. What that means is we are officially in the Antarctic a region. The water temprature has dropped,the wind is noticably colder and the waves have been larger. While out on the deck, I was staring down at the ocean. The water is an incredible navy blue color. It looks much cleaner than what I have experienced at beachesaround the world. It is also colder water than anywhere else. A few wandering albatross have been flying in front of the ship. Tomorrow afternoon we should be landing at Antarctica and the team is pretty excited. Robert Swan told us that one of the high spots in this expedition will be the food when we are on ship. He was not kidding. The food has been a highlight thus far. I guess they are trying to build some body fat beforewe hit Antarctica. 
I finished a book titled A voyage for Madmen. It is a non-fictional storyabout nine men who entered a race to see who could circumnavigate the globe without stopping. The individuals who entered this race were prepared tospend a year on the open seas before going home. Only one of them wouldmake it back. Eric Rawling a fellow HP collegue gave me the book to read.I'm going to quote the authors description of the Drake Passage."Here, Southern Ocean winds and waters and funneled through a relativleynarrow gap, Drake's [Passage], the 600-mile-wide sea passage between CapHorn and the Antarctic peninsula. The sea bottom shoals off the horn, raising the already enormous waves, and williwaws of hurricane-force windsscream down off the Andean glaciers; wind, towering waves, and ferocious currents collide, turning Cape Horn waters into a maelstrom."Tomorrow will be exciting because we receive our Zodiac boat training. These are basically reinforced rubber rafts with an engine on the back. These are the boats that will be taking us to shore.
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