New Years Eve spent zodiac cruising around Elephant Island, in particular Point Wild, was an unexpected highlight.
Renowned for being the landing and living spot for the left-behind crew in the famous Shackleton expedition (which features highly in daily presentations on the “Sea Adventurer” by the quark expeditions team), it allowed an intimate introduction to what the extremely difficult conditions would have been like.
We had it easy!
Festivities for 2015 started Christmas Eve breakfast, with the ship crew wearing Santa hats, having decorated the interior of it in tinsel and twee.
This continued throughout the day with impromptu coraling and plenty of “Merry Christmas” sprinkled liberally.
Culminating in the Christmas Eve feast of Seafood Chowder, Roast Turkey with all trimmings and Dessert of Banana Foster (cooked banana in caramel sauce) served by Chef and Maître De in the main lounge.
Followed closely by a rousing rendition of Christmas songs, one to be featured (not heard before) got the ship pumping resulting in a congo line of willing participants (us included).
And to top it all off, 7 of us started a form of “celebrity head” called “heads up”, ending up with many more joining in as the joviality and the red wine kicked in even more.
A fab and memorable time had by all… a rousing thank you to the crew of the Sea Adventurer
and the team of quark expeditions.
Christmas Day had us stepping foot on South Georgia, the first of many stops…
here’s the Details…
here’s the Ship…
here’s the Itinerary…
here’s us, very excited to be heading off on our Antarctica adventure…
Top of the festive season to you and yours… ho ho ho!
Back again in 2016