Picto Diary

Picto Diary - 18, 19, 20 January 2023 - The Restive Drake Passage Redux

Three or four days of these types of seas is the cost you have to pay crossing the Drake to see Antarctica.

Picto Diary - 17 January 2023 - Antarctic Continental Rift

Celebrate Elon Musk seeking to hedge humanity extinction bets by populating a nearby planet.

Picto Diary - 16 January 2023 - Portal Point Ice-scapes

To humans, landscapes seem immutable. "Ice-scapes" are ever changing. No human will capture this same image again.

Picto Diary - 15 January 2023 - Curverville Island

Getting to know some of our fellow cruise goers was an important part of the Austral experience in Antarctica.

Picto Diary - 14 January 2023 (Part 2) - Yalour Islands

The Adélie penguin ( Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is its only habitat. 

Picto Diary - 14 January 2023 (Part 1) - Port Charcot

Port Charcot was the overwintering site of the French Antarctic Expedition, commanded by Jean-Baptiste Charcot from 1903 through 1905.

Picto Diary - 13 January 2023 (Part 2) Paradise Bay

Above:  Reflections.  Paradise Bay.  Antarctica, 13 January 2023.

Picto Diary - 13 January 2023 (Part 1) - Neko Bay

Antarctica.  No longer an abstraction.  No longer a white blotch on the bottom of my office globe.  Seeing this land spurred a lump in throat moment.  My erstwhile ambivalence about coming on this trip is beginning to fade.  

Picto Diary - 11, 12 January 2023 - Traversing the Drake Passage

We are informed by the captain that Drake seas, with up to 8 feet swells are a benign "2" of "10" when it comes to potential Drake restiveness. 

Picto Diary - 8,9, 10 January 2023 - Antarctica Bound

Antarctica Bound

Picto Diary - 01 to 08 January 2022

The two most photogenic people I know are FeeBee and her mom. FeeBee and B1B are excelling at raising interesting, well behaved, high achieving kids!

Picto Diary - 17 to 31 December 2022 - Clyde Snow Shareholder

"Congratulations to our attorney Jake Taylor, our newest shareholder here at Clyde Snow & Sessions!"