Author Archives: Gary

After 5 or 6 days at sea, I lost track, we arrived at La Digue, Seychelle on Tuesday, March 15th. La Digue is the 3rd largest island in the Seychelles archipelago and has about 2,000 permanent residents. There are no airport so the main transportation is by ferry to Praslin, my next stop, and thenContinue reading “Seychelles, Africa”

We just spent 3 days in Zanzibar and it was another great experience. There were a variety of choices for excursions from snorkeling at a resort, tours of national parks, the old town area of Zanzibar to name a few. My choices were the Jozani Forest and Nature Reserve with a large population of monkeys.Continue reading “Zanzibar, Tanzania”

Let’s start with Port Elizabeth last Sunday, February 27th. Port Elizabeth is a major manufacturing town for cars and cars parts. Ford, Isuzu, and several others all have manufacturing plants along with tires and other major parts. Needless to say the town itself is not that exciting but the area around it is. One thingContinue reading “WOW, Port Elizabeth to Durban”

I’m a little late in getting this out because the internet has been flakey and would not cooperate. We spent 3 days in Cape Town and were able to venture out on our own in addition to the shore excursions. That improved the mood of everyone and Cape Town was a fun stop. First dayContinue reading “Cape Town”

This has been a looooong group of sea days since leaving South Georgia. Four days to get to Tristan Da Cunha, 1 day there and 5 days to Cape Town for which there are still 2 more sea days. We arrive about 6:00 am on Tuesday and have been told, for the first time, weContinue reading “Tristan Da Cunha”

We arrived at South Georgia on Thursday, February 10th. The first stop was the old whaling station and now research station at Grytviken. There are less than 50 people on the island and they are at least 3 days sail to the closest hospital, so they did not want us to land there but weContinue reading “South Georgia”

This will be our last day in Antarctica and we’ll start crossing the Drake passage tonight enroute to South Georgia to see the Emperor and Macaroni (Rock Hoppers for Ava) penguins. We arrived on Saturday the 5th to Yankee Harbor and went ashore. Due to the amount of ice in the harbor we couldn’t getContinue reading “Greetings from Antarctica”

Today will be the non-update. The trip the through the fjords on the way to Punta Arenas was very interesting with great scenery (for what we could see). It was very gray/cloudy/rainy so photos very very difficult and you could not see very far but you’ll hear more about fjords shortly. We arrived in PuntaContinue reading “Adios Chile!”

It’s January 30th, we’re on our way to the Chilean Fiord’s and should arrive there in the morning for a day of cruising the fiords and glaciers. The last two days we were in Puerto Mont and then a short stop in Castro, Chiloe Island, Chile yesterday. We were still limited to staying on theContinue reading “Puerto Mont and Castro Chile”

Well, once again we were met by Chilean health officials when we docked yesterday and first told we could not go on any of our shore excursions. After discussions with Silversea, they agreed to let us do a short bus ride through the city but everyone had to stay on the bus. I opted notContinue reading “Valparaiso, Chile”