Slobro is so excited, he is off to the Antarctica Peninsula south from Argentina. Bucket list. He has always wanted to go and has been pouring over maps checking on the route, landing spots and the penguins to be seen.

We leave early Thursday morning for Sydney, from there to Santiago and then on to Buenos Aires. We have a couple of nights there before heading down to Ushuaia to join the Viking Octantis for the expedition cruise across the Drake Passage to the Peninsula.

It takes a day and a bit to get across the Passage to the Peninsula where will spend seven days making landings in various spots for wildlife sightings etc. Cruises also go down from Hobart to the Australian side of Antarctica but take much longer to get there, six to seven days. The landscape on the Australian side is also totally different, great expanses of flat land, snow and ice rising out of the sea. Icebergs tend to be flat and of great size. Whereas, on the Argentina side the landscape is more mountainous, with craggy peaks and glaciers. The icebergs are also more irregular and of smaller size.

Each place also has different species of penguins and seals. Lots of whales and birds.

Should be most interesting, zodiac landings a little challenging perhaps for aging legs! We will see, and hoping for a smooth crossing of the Drake Passage.