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Bird watching and photography in Antarctica | Janice Howard
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Musings on meandering through life. Posted by: Janice Howard. February 3, 2015. Bird watching and photography in Antarctica. Ten big guns are hanging off the stern shooting Pintado and Snow Petrels swooping in the wake of National Geographic Orion clipper ship. It’s one thing to photograph penguins perched like statues atop their pebble nests. It’s an entirely different challenge to steady your sea legs in rough Antarctic swells to shoot a bird flapping its wings in an unpredictable flight pattern. Upon ...
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Trips ashore start with a biosecurity check | Janice Howard
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Musings on meandering through life. Posted by: Janice Howard. January 31, 2015. Trips ashore start with a biosecurity check. Invasive animal and plant species pose a real threat to Antarctica’s fragile environment. Before our first expedition ashore, we are subjected to a ‘biosecurity check.’. Like soldiers on parade square, the 100 passengers aboard National Geographic’s Orion ship line up for muster roll which includes:. Vacuuming camera bags and knapsacks that we intend to carry ashore;. The leading p...
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Where’s the beef? | Janice Howard
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Musings on meandering through life. Posted by: Janice Howard. January 26, 2015. Where’s the beef? No trip to Argentina is complete without an asado beef dinner, often touted as the country’s national dish. Asado is a term used to describe barbecuing or grilling and apparently the Argentinians do it best, although my Australian and Canadian friends may argue that point. Whether the Argentinians have the asado advantage has yet to be tasted. Once again my English was an obstacle and I slid still ignorant t...
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National Geographic discovery camp | Janice Howard
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Musings on meandering through life. Posted by: Janice Howard. February 3, 2015. National Geographic discovery camp. Travelling with National Geographic is like attending discovery camp with so much to see and do and so little time to write. It’s now February 3 and since my last post we’ve cruised down the Gerlache Strait and into the Errera Channel where we observed a group of humpback whales lunge feeding off the bow. The next day, January 31, we sailed through Lemaire Channel. Wind and driving rain gre...
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Spirit of Adventure | Janice Howard
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Musings on meandering through life. Posted by: Janice Howard. January 28, 2015. The question on everyone’s tongue is ‘Why are you travelling to Antarctica? My reason is familial. One hundred years ago, my Great Uncle Huberht Hudson sailed to Antarctica with Ernest Shackleton on one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had already claimed the title as the first man to reach the South Pole and Shackleton’s goal was to cross the uncharted continent on foot. In fac...