by Sarah Gallo | Jan 18, 2014 | Antarctica
Christmas Eve. Up at 7 so that we could begin our 2.5 hour zodiac cruise through Cierva Cove. It was snowing – a very white Christmas indeed. We were on a search for sea mammals, specifically whales, but unfortunately we didn't see any. It wasn't that...
by Sarah Gallo | Jan 18, 2014 | Antarctica
We were awakened at 6:30am to an announcement saying to look out our windows and view Antarctica! I screamed and ran to the upper deck to take photos (naturally). It was freezing cold but the views were astonishing – so nice to see after two days at sea. We...
by Sarah Gallo | Jan 18, 2014 | Antarctica
All aboard the Vavilov for Christmas in Antarctica! It was slightly overwhelming as I was making the journey to the “Deep South” on my own but, as always, I managed. That night we were told to take our motion sickness meds because the Drake Passage, the roughest seas...
by Sarah Gallo | Jan 11, 2014 | Patagonia
I woke up early the next morning for glacial hiking, or so I thought. Through my sleepiness, my dad told me that plans changed because the boat we had to take back to shore post-ice hiking broke down and that we would not have been able to go on the ice anymore. I was...
by Sarah Gallo | Jan 11, 2014 | Patagonia
We woke up the next morning, knowing that we would have to carry our large backpacks with us on this final hike of our Patagonia trek to Glaciar Grey. Except we didn’t know it would be a hike, per se, we thought it’d be a pretty flat walk. Boy were we very, very...