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RE: Antartica, the 7th Continent Day 1 - 4
I hear nowadays it's around 120k visitors per year. We saw ships from far afield which kinda spoils the ambience. I have a sneaky feeling they might restrict visitor numbers in future, and that may push prices up.
30 passengers sounds like quite a small ship, no wonder the other people were scared! Reminds me of the stories about the small wooden boats people sailed in back in the days!
Any plans of a return trip?
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Not a small ship, maybe smaller than yours, but not small. Build for the navy, which essentially means, very very sturdy and able to stand any weather you can imagine! Back in the days, hardly any 'normal' cruise ship going to Antarctica. But but but could be my co-passengers didn't had the insight into what a naval ship is about. I have some to more experience with ships, boats and whatnot, so easier for me to understand what these can handle. And perhaps also my adventurous side in me wanting to see the ship going straight into the waves and jumping out of it at the backside of these huge and high water 'bricks' 😆
No plans for a return trip. I like to give pleasure to others. But perhaps someday, who knows. But honestly, I think one should not go again, since I feel it'll be much less impressive the second time. I experienced this with so many 'big' destinations. Like Wall Street. Like Egypt and all their big ass Statutes, Pyramids and shizzle. First time, impressive. Second time: mucho less impressive.
...and enough places in the world, I never visited. On my list are Greenland, perhaps kayaking, North Pole in one or the other way. Alaska, but more in the small villages instead of Anchorage. Northern parts of Canada. Japan, deep into the mountains, remote villages, preferably on top of mountains. So much I like, so little I plan 🙂