https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:58:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/antarctica-days-8-12/ Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:22:23 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=30960 March 7th, 2019 This morning’s GPS Position:  64°49.2’S / 065°32.4’W     Air Temp: 1°C Sea Temp: -1°C Thursday morning, we awoke to cloudy skies again but no fog.  After a 7:15 wake up call, followed by breakfast, we were heading out at 8:30 for a landing on Damoy Point.  There are less ice bergs today […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/antarctica-part-2-days-5-7/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:32:26 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=30941 March 4, 2019 Days 5-7 This morning’s GPS Position:  64°10.2’S / 064°06.8’W     Air Temp: +2°C Sea Temp: -1°C Monday, March 4th, we were awoken at 6:45 to watch the sailing of the ship through the Lemaire Channel which is a beautiful narrow channel measuring only 745 m / 2400’. There are lots of rocks under […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/antarctica-days-1-4/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:36:53 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=30897 February 28th, 2019 ANTARCTICA – THE 7TH CONTINENT Days 1-4 *(this trip was 12 days long and since there’s so much to blog about, we’ll split it in three)   Antarctica in summer, is roughly the size of Australia – in winter with all the sea ice, it can get as big as 2.5 times […]]]>