“We all really miss being away from our families and friends for so long, but to have the chance to be here, to really get to grips with the major environmental issues that surround us, and to feel that we can actually start the “snowball” down the hill,...
“…the big secret of Antarctica is that if anything happened to it we wouldn’t just be sorry and a teeny bit sad, we’d be in bigger trouble than the baby dinosaur who said ‘look mummy, a shooting star – that means good luck’. ” – Sir Peter Blake...
“We hadn’t intended to be at sea last night. But once we knew this was an inevitability, we prepared for it. We could have hove-too, clear of most of the ice to the east and waited until the dawn, but to be in a gale in the Bransfield Strait, at night, in heavy...
” It was a real rush of excitement having these large seals swim right up to you at full speed then suddenly stop, turn upside down whilst baring their teeth and then dash off only to come back again and again. It was the Antarctic equivalent of running around...
“Now is the time to make a difference. The time is running out for some unless we act now.” – Sir Peter Blake Location: Trinity Island Latitude: 63.54S Longitude: 60.46W Wind: Northeasterly, 25 to 30 knots Sea state: Rough outside harbour Air temp: 0 deg C...
