Days 3-7 of Antarctica Cruise: February 3-7, 2025
“A scene which was so excessively beautiful in sinister grandeur that one almost felt a sort of pain in the contemplation of such magnificence.” –Jean-B. Charcot.
Antarctica has just become my most favorite place on earth. I got a tiny glimpse of it on my drive-by cruise last year. But to see the real thing, you need muck boots on the ground and your butt in a Zodiac. To drift among the icebergs, eye level with seals. Yes, it’s cold, desolate, and stark. But also breathtaking, pure, and surreal. I’ve run out of superlatives.
“If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.” — Andrew Denton
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