Blog Posts for Antarctica
Love in the animal kingdom
Love is in the air...and the forests, and the oceans and the snow. While many humans will celebrate Valentine's Day today, there's also plenty of animals that spend each and every day with a loved one.
Here's just a few animals that mate for life...
Read MoreTop 5 adventure activities in Antarctica
Brendan van Son has done some pretty wild things in Antarctica. Here he shares some of his favourite activities, including a few you might never have considered!
Read MorePacking tips for Antarctica
Packing can be a bit of an arduous task. It can be especially difficult if you don't really know what to expect about from your destination.
Antarctica, being one of the world's last frontiers, is a challenge to pack since very few people know what to expect from the icy continent. However, it doesn't need to be a challenge. To lend a little assistance, Brendan van Son shares some of his tips on packing.
Read MoreAntarctica photography tips: Part 2
There can be stunning photo opportunities in Antarctica – massive icebergs and glaciers below skies of wonderful colours and variations and huge penguin rookeries with their extraordinary levels of activity and interaction to name a few.
These days, most people use digital, so it's possible to edit images with Photoshop or similar when you get back home (one concedes that pink or purple penguins are no longer out of the question).
Read MoreAntarctica photography tips: Part 1
Without an ounce of overstatement, the landscapes, wilderness and wildlife on our Antarctic trips can often leave people lost for words. The immensity and the grandeur of the scenery and sheer quantity of the animal life can be overwhelming.
No photo, however good, can ever hope to capture it all properly but with the right equipment and a few handy tips everyone can come home with some incredible shots.
Some thoughts and suggestions:
Read MoreAntarctica FAQ
For many people, Antarctica is earth's last great geographical frontier. Therefore, we still have much to learn about this land of ice, water and penguins.
Brendan van Son tells us what we can expect on our visit to Antarctica. If you have any questions that are not answered within the FAQ please feel free to leave them in the comments area below and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Read More3 fun ways to burn off those Christmas calories
How good is Christmas pudding? And what about that leftover ham, devoured on Boxing Day between two slabs of fresh white bread? And who could forget the obligatory cheese platter to help wash down all that white wine.
If (like me) you’ve over-indulged a little over the silly season, why not work it off in style. Here’s five unique ways to get the legs moving, set your heart racing and help work off that extra serving of pavlova:
Read MoreNote from the Road: Understanding Grassroots Travel
In my final year of university I took an international development class for first year students. I'll be honest in telling you that I took the class because I knew that it would be easy, I had already taken all the advanced courses and had done well in them. I was taking the class for the one and only reason of boosting my overall marks. What I didn't know is that there would be no class in all of my studies that would stimulate my thought process as much as this class.
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