An 18 day voyage through some of the most beautiful and pristine locations in the far south of Planet Earth. I was on the same ship as in Oceania in 2019, the MV Island Sky of Noble Caledonia, a company operating smaller cruise ships, which are able to sail to locations that larger ships can't. The voyage began at Ushuaia, at the southern end of Argentina. Taking an anticlockwise loop, we crossed the Drake Passage and visited islands of the South Shetland Islands, the mainland of the Antarctic Peninsula, Elephant Island, South Georgia and finally the Falkland Islands. . The cruise ended back at Ushuaia, with a bus tour of part of the Patagonia National Park, before the flights home. |
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Itinerary |
[Day] | Date | Activity | Locations | Photos | Movies |
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1 | Thu 15 Feb | Driving and flight | Home,LHR,Madrid | ||
2 | Fri 16 Feb | Flight | Madrid-Buenos Aires | click | |
3 | Sat 17 Feb | Flight and boarding ship | Buenos Aires-Ushuaia. Boarded Island Sky | ||
4 | Sun 18 Feb | Sailing | Heading along Beagle Channel then south through Drake's Passage | ||
5 | Mon 19 Feb | Sailing | Heading south | click | |
6 | Tue 20 Feb | Zodiac landings | Half Moon Island and Deception Island | click | click |
7 | Wed 21 Feb | Zodiac tours (non-landing) | Fournier Bay and Lockroy Station | click | click |
8 | Thu 22 Feb | Zodiac landing | Palmer Station (USA) | click | click |
9 | Fri 23 Feb | Zodiac landing | Brown Bluff | click | click |
10 | Sat 24 Feb | Zodiac tour | Elephant Island | click | click |
11 | Sun 25 Feb | Sailing | Heading to South Georgia | click | |
12 | Mon 26 Feb | Sailing | Late trip along Drygalski Bay, S.Georgia | click | click |
13 | Tue 27 Feb | Zodiac tours (non-landing) | Royal Bay and St Andrew Bay | click | click |
14 | Wed 28 Feb | Zodiac Landings | Grytviken and Fortuna Bay | click | click |
15 | Thu 29 Feb | Sailing | Heading west to Falklands | click | |
16 | Fri 1 Mar | Sailing | Heading towards Port Stanley | ||
17 | Sat 2 Mar | Port Stanley | Tour of 1982 battlefields, East Falkland | click | |
18 | Sun 3 Mar | Port Stanley then departure | Town bus tour, museum, coffee and pub | click | |
19 | Mon 4 Mar | Mooring at New Island | Zodiac landing on New Island (birds) | click | click |
20 | Tue 5 Mar | Sailing | Heading south towards Ushuaia | ||
21 | Wed 6 Mar | Dock at Ushuaia | National Park tour then to airport, flight to B.A. (hotel overnight) | click | |
22 | Thu 7 Mar | Airport then flight to Madrid | Flying Iberia A350 | ||
23 | Fri 8 Mar | Flight then drive home | Madrid to Heathrow, picked up car |