Have you ever heard of the cruise line, Hurtigruten? I hadn’t until ex-Marine (husband, Steve) and I made a long-awaited journey to Antarctica and saw the MS Nordnorge waiting its turn to land passengers on Paradise Island and then the MS Fram docked in Ushuaia right behind our ship. Both are owned by Hurtigruten and [...]
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Hurtigruten Cruises Up Around Norway or Way Down in Antarctica
May 13th, 2010 
Sheila Simkin 
Posted in Antarctica, Cruises, General 
Tags: adventure, Antarctica, cruises, culture, destination, event, Hurtigruten, log, Norway, sightseeing, transportation, travel 
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One Last Day In Buenos Aires, Argentina and Antarctica Thoughts
April 28th, 2008 Sheila Simkin In Buenos Aires on a Sunday, we walked back to the San Telmo Flea Market hoping to see everyone dressed in costumes, bands and entertainment (see earlier article…put in date when it runs). Wrong. Our earlier visit happened to be a special day. San Telmo is still fun and interesting but nothing like the one [...]
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One Last Day in Ushuaia, Argentina
April 27th, 2008 Sheila Simkin The Disembarkation routine: 6:00 am wake up; 6:15 am luggage outside door; 6:30-7:30 am breakfast; 7:00 am dock in Ushuaia. All passengers off ship by 8:00 am with a bus taking those on an early flight out of Ushuaia directly to the airport. For all others (with the exception of tour groups and those being [...]
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Cruising Back Through The Drake Passage, Antarctica
April 26th, 2008 Sheila Simkin We departed Antarctica via the Melchoir Islands in Dallman Bay. There would be nothing but sea for the next two days. We are at a Beaufort Scale 7 with nothing to see and back on Meclizine. The good thing – everyone does have sea legs and is able to stagger around the ship with little [...]
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Cruising to Antarctica: Neko Harbor and Russian Night
April 25th, 2008 Sheila Simkin The highlight as always was the penguins. Toiling their way from high rookeries to the sea… sitting on nests…squabbling and braying at each other while trying to steal rocks and pebbles…ignoring us completely while we tried to stay out of their very well-defined penguin trails. Shouts of “Penguin coming through”…and we’d jump out of the [...]
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Cruising to Antarctica: Neko Harbor in Anvord Bay
April 24th, 2008 Sheila Simkin It was time to prepare the zodiacs and lower them into Anvord Bay. Fascinating…View image… One zodiac had all the emergency gear in it. Food, medication, tools, everything packed in huge chests. These came with us on all landings. We’d watch the individual zodiac drivers get in their zodiac, hang on and the entire zodiac [...]
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Cruising to Antarctica: In The Gerlache Strait, Culverville Island
April 23rd, 2008 Sheila Simkin Another try for a morning landing on Danco Island but there was still too much ice. Impossible for the zodiacs to get through the ice and land the passengers safely. Culverville Island was substituted instead. The M/S Andrea is moored off-shore landing their people and we’ll have to wait until they are finished. Remember, the [...]
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Cruising to Antarctica: Port Lockroy with Time to Shop!
April 22nd, 2008 Sheila Simkin The really big draw of Port Lockroy for most of us was a chance to shop. The British maintain a small museum, gift shop and Post Office on Goudier Island (our landing site)…View image… where stamps…View image… and souvenirs could be purchased and mail sent. Of course, it may take months for your mail to [...]
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Cruising to Antarctica: Penguin Colonies on Petermann Island
April 21st, 2008 Sheila Simkin Breakfast, and then put on all the layers of clothing, boots, into the zodiac for the Petermann Island landing in a cove originally called “Port Circumcision.” Adelies, Gentoos and Blue-eyed shags (I never got close enough to see the blue eyes). Susan’s wake-up announcemen this morning included the magic words: “sunny and dead calm seas.” [...]
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Cruising to Antarctica: Through The Incredible Lemaire Channel
April 20th, 2008 Sheila Simkin The Orlova is carrying 94 passengers from: Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Holland (about 13 persons), a large Taiwan group, a large Chinese group, Israel, Australia, Switzerland, USA, Japan, Ukraine, Scotland, Canada, India, Greece, Ireland and Hong Kong. Our guess is that 60% of the passengers are younger than 40, very well traveled with quite a few [...]
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