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The 5 Best (And Unexpected) Things About An Antarctica Cruise.
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Jan 28, 2025
An Antarctica cruise and visit is a dream or goal for many travellers. It is a unique and special experience. I discuss the 5 very best things that you will feel, see and do if you go on an Antarctica cruise.I show you the sights, wildlife (including penguins, whales, seals and birds) and the range of expedition activities you can expect. The five very best things you can expect on an Antarctica cruise. Also watch my other videos, including part two of this where I talk about and show the five "worst" things about an Antarctica cruise. All things you need to know before you spend the thousands it will cost to go to Antarctica. Also watch my "5 Worst Things About An Antarctica Cruise": https://youtu.be/2btWdAzjxPE Check out cruising merchandise like T-shirts at my store at https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/store Support the channel by booking your next cruise and for the best deals on CRUISEDIRECT.COM: https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/CruiseDirectYT Consider becoming a Tips For Travellers Patron. Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/tipsfortravellers #Antarctica #AntarcticaCruise #AntarcticaTravel Follow Tips For Travellers on: - Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/garybembridge - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge
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visiting Antarctica is for many people
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are once-in-a-lifetime goal ambition or
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dream I'm about to share with you the
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five very best things about going on a
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cruise to Antarctica hi I'm Gary
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beverage and this is another of my tips
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for travelers
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I'm currently as I record this sailing
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back from a phenomenal ten days visiting
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Antarctica I've been cruising on silver
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seas little cloud expedition ship and I
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want to share with you and show you
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what's really good and why one of the
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best things about an artic ruse is the
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fact that it is so unique it's so
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special and you are so privileged to do
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it only about 45,000 people go to
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Antarctica at the moment every single
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year very few people actually get to go
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to Antarctica and really experience this
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magical remote and unusual place so the
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best thing about it is you're going some
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way that's not overcrowded it's still
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very special it's very unique it's very
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unpredictable it's very different you
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feel when you're there that you're part
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of something absolutely magical and
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you're doing something that's unique and
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special and that's one of the best
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things for me about Antarctic cruise
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it's not like going everywhere else
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where everyone's been without a shadow
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of a doubt one of the best things about
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Antarctica are the landscapes and the
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scenery every day I thought I'd seen the
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best scenery that I was going to see in
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Antarctica
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we'd move somewhere else and it was an
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even bigger revelation was almost as if
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every day was building to something
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bigger and better it is absolutely
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magnificent we went to incredibly
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diverse places you're going to see huge
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big soaring mountains places everywhere
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here everywhere you look there are
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glaciers and they are huge and
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magnificent it just really is absolutely
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magnificent no matter where you go it is
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just remarkable and I don't know if the
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images will ever do justice to what you
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actually get to see one of the best
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things about a Nautica or the Penguins
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there are so many penguins wherever you
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go and I learned so much about penguins
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we mostly saw chin strap and gentleness
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because the time of the year that I went
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there are no land-based
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predators indent Arctica so the Penguins
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are very comfortable with people being
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on land and although the regulations say
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you should try and stay 5 meters or 15
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feet away from penguins they didn't get
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the memo and they will move right around
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you
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well Henry knows about penguins is there
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rockeries and where they live is very
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far and really high up from the sea and
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they have to walk huge distances and
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climb over quite rough terrain and they
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create these highways which they use to
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go up and down if you get in their way
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on the highway or you block the highway
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they are not happy at all and one of the
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big things we were told is avoid the
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highways penguins have right-of-way when
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they swim it is quite remarkable they
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can move very fast so Jen tube can go up
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to 30 miles an hour
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and sometimes we were cruising along on
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the ship and they were swimming
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alongside the ship with his kind of
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duckie and diving that they do and they
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were keeping up with the ship at all
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times
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they are absolutely phenomenal there are
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gorgeously cute creatures penguins are
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everywhere and we just saw huge amounts
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of penguins and they are absolutely
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phenomenal
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so the third best thing about Antarctica
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is the other wildlife you do see
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phenomenal amounts of wildlife and
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particularly whales so I went towards
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the end of the season which is the end
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of February beginning of March and it's
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a really good time to see whales so we
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saw humpbacks up really close so right
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in the zodiacs humpbacks were swimming
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around us and diving down getting food
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when we were cruising through galosh
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channel we saw a huge part of orcas also
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known as killer whales pretty much
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everywhere we went once we were in
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Antarctica whales were somewhere around
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and we could see them everywhere the
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other thing that I absolutely loved
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seeing was seals and we saw a wide range
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of seals some of which were floating on
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the various bits of floating ice others
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were on land so we saw the leopard seals
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they're very deadly they are big
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predators of penguins they're also very
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popular food for the orcas we also saw
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Weddell seals crabeater seals which
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known as eat crabs and we also saw
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Antarctica fur seals so seeing these big
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amazing creatures is quite remarkable if
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you're into birds
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you also see a wide range of birds both
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on the crossing
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on Drake's passage but also once you get
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to Antarctica but for me the third best
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thing when I share it out with the
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whales and the seals the thing which for
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me was quite a surprise was the
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diversity and range of different
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expedition experiences on an Antarctic
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Cruise so we had three really buckets of
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things that we did the first of which
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was basically sail by on the ship so we
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were actually on the ship and we cruised
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by things like the mass of a 57a iceberg
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which is 11 nautical miles long it's 5
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nautical miles wide and it's 30 meters
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above the sea and 300 meters below it
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we also cruise through one of the most
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scenic parts of Antarctica that's a
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lemon air channel which is famous for
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its very narrow channel is blocked for
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large parts of the year with sea ice
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absolutely beautiful place to sell
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through and there's loads of leopard
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seals and different types of seals on
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the various ice floes around and through
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that channel the second set of
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expedition experiences are on zodiacs so
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these small zodiacs we have 8 to 10
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people and one guide and we would head
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out on various different excursions and
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stay on the zodiacs so sometimes it
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might just be cruising through a
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beautiful Bay getting up close to the
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glaciers or perhaps cruising past some
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of the different research stations that
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are down in Antarctica and of course
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then zodiac cruising around looking for
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Wales particularly humpback whales which
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would come really close to the zodiacs
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and dive all around us another great
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example of a Zodiac excursion was in
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plena Island this is an area where the
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various currents and the winds drive and
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push a lot of the big icebergs and so
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you almost have a iceberg graveyard or
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at a certainly an area where there's all
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these beautiful and unusual ice almost
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sculptures sometimes they'll be the odd
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surprise where for example of piano bay
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they had sent out a separate little
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zodiac which had hot chocolate champagne
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and cookies so the bit little surprises
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sometimes when you're outside yeah
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cruising the third bucket then were
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zodiac landings where you head out from
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the ship on the zodiacs and of course
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step on land and there were three main
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types of zodiac landings that we did the
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first of those were ones that got you to
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really get up
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and intermingle with wildlife so that
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might be penguins there might be seals
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and the wildlife were right around you
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when you went on your various walks the
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second type of learning were hikes and
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some of these were pretty strenuous we'd
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hike up big ice-covered Hills they look
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like they're covered in snow but they
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are actually just really slippery and
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ice and we'd hike up mountains I was to
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get incredible views or sometimes at the
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top of these hills would be rookeries
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with penguins sometimes even with still
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little fluffy baby chicks another great
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example of a hike was on deception
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island at Telephone Bay where we hiked
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right up to the crater of a volcano
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which had really destroyed big parts of
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the island the other type of zodiac
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landing which I really enjoyed as well
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were ones where we first of all either
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went and visited a research station so
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for example we went to the Dan ski
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station which was a Ukranian station
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since 1996 before that was a UK station
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which they sold to the Ukrainians and
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the people there spend a whole year
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working there or we'd go and visit a old
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historic research station so for example
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there was a war tea house which was a
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Ciccone over Danske which was a really
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ancient old research station which it
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now is a museum the other type of
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excursion which was really fascinating
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were historic ones and this was mostly
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at whaler's bay on deception island
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where the whaling ships would come and
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on land there were some processing
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facilities for the whole whaling
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industry it was deserted in the 30s when
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the prices just collapsed our whale oil
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and so you now have these slightly
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surreal remnants left behind in well as
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Bay the experience of an article is
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phenomenal it beat every expectation I
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had nothing that I'd read or seen
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prepared me for the magnificence of
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Antarctica those are the best things and
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there are a few worse things however the
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worst things are never ever going to get
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in the way of making it a magical
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experience I hope you found this helpful
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interesting inspiring if you do that
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