Day 22 to 24 – 6th to 8th March – The Journey Home
Two days travel – in the last two days I have travelled from my final destination in the Falkland Islands to arrive in Santiago – Chile via Ushuaia – Argentina to start the final leg of my journey home to Singapore.
I left home on the evening of the 14th February 2016 and I will arrive back in Singapore on the afternoon of 10th March almost a month later. I have had the most incredible trip and that is a HUGE understatement.
The trip has been a trip of three parts Antarctica, South Georgia then The Falkland Islands. It has be a trip of amazing landscapes, incredible oceans, fascinating wildlife on land, in the sea and air, and last but not least, history of the polar explorers such as Shackleton re tracing some of his journey and visiting his final resting place, along with the history and place’s in The Falklands…and more and more and more.
I have seen ice like I have never imagined. I have seen whales including Blue, Humpback, Orca and every type of penguin from the Emperor to the Chinstrap. Birds from the huge Wandering Albatrosses through to the tiny South Georgia Pipit. Elephant Seals to tiny seal pups.
But it is now over, 20 nights at sea on The National Geographic Orion, 3850 nautical miles of sailing and as I sit here awaiting to connect to my flight home to Singapore and writing the final post on the “Trip to Antarctica”. I think to myself what a very lucky guy I am to have been able to make this trip which was planned almost two years ago. A huge thank you to my lovely wife Ann Marie who has always told me to follow my dream, and go do it, and now I have. Now very much looking forward to get back to see Ann Marie, it has been a long time, a long way away.
To all those that have followed my ramblings, I hope you have enjoyed and thanks for the feedback and interest. If anyone wants to know anything further about my trip please just get in touch. I am sure I can be really boring, with such comments as would you like to see my 3000+ photographs?
Take care everyone
Bye for now
Nigel
We have throughly enjoyed following the blog.
What an awesome trip can’t wait to see the photos!!!
Well maybe 10% of them ?
Thanks Philip – glad you guys enjoyed was a fantastic experience – so you only want to see 1000 photos then ha ha