Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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BT – Antarctic sunset

At about 11:30pm there were some breaks in the cloud as the sun approached the horizon, and as I was still up I headed outside in the hope of a spectacular sunset. I was not disappointed.

Some orange-tinged rays of light hit one of the nearby peaks.

Meanwhile, the sun itself was setting behind some other peaks in […]

BT – Dorian Bay and Damoy Hut

Over lunch we motored northward to Wiencke Island, where we came ashore at Dorian Bay (S 64°49′ W 63°30′), just below the two relatively small huts — one Argentinian, the other British — perched on the hillside. The British one is no longer used but is a designated historic site; the Argentinian refuge is older and […]

BT – Around Port Charcot

Our destination for the morning was Port Charcot (S 65°03.9′ W 64°01.5′), a bay on the northwest side of Booth Island. Here we went ashore and saw — wait for it — more penguins!

We also had a good view of the melting sea ice to the south.

Most of the penguins were Gentoos yet again (as in […]

BT – Cruising the Lemaire Channel

I remember being impressed as we spent the first part of our fourth Antarctic morning cruising the Lemaire Channel (S 65°3′ W 63°54′), but selecting the photos to include here reminded me just how awesomely stunning it was.

I am not entirely sure which route we took (in fact, I think we may have turned back from […]