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BOTTING NET |
 Michal leaves, Zucca Bear says goodby 1/21/06 |  Michal in Buenos Aires 1/22/06 |  Michal Boarding in Ushuaia 1/23/06 |
 Leaving Ushuaia 1/23/06 |  Drake Passage 1/24/06 (unusualy calm) |  A first view of Antarctica 1/25/06 |
 1st Penguin Rookery Penguin Island 1/25/06 |  1st landing - Penguin Island 1/25/06 |  Penquins, Seal, Whale bones & bergs. This must be Antarctica 1/25/06 |
 Chinstrap Penguins 1/25/06 |  Fur Seal 1/25/06 |  Michal at top of Penguin Island - cone within a cone 1/25/06 |
 View from (near) top Penquin Island 1/25/06 |
 Michal & whale bones 1/25/06 |  Fur Seal up and lumbering 1/25/06 |
 Neil also made it to the top 1/25/06 |  Michal & young Gentoos Kinnes Cove 1/26/06 |  Fuzzy Gentoo chicks 1/26/06 |
 Red Coats, B & W Gentoos & white bergs 1/26/06 |  Large Penguin of unknown species 1/26/06 |  Fluffy Chick 1/26/06 |
 Penguin have big, strong feet 1/26/06 |  Zodiak near big berg 1/26/06 |  Antarctic Petrel & Humpback 1/26/06 |
 Berg much bigger than our Ship 1/26/06 |  More big bergs 1/26/06 |  Cave in Iceberg 1/26/06 |
 Michal & Neil watching for whales 1/26/06 |  2 Humpbacks 1/26/06 |  2 Humpbacks 1/26/06 |
 Ship heads into Antarctic mist 1/26/06 |
 Heading to Cuverville Isl at Gerlache Strait entrance to Errera channel 1/27/06 |  Crabeater seals on ice floe as Zodiac goes by 1/27/06 |
 Michal "shoots" a Gentoo 1/27/06 |  Gentoo & chick. Note pebble nest 1/27/06 |  Rookery, people and penguins 1/27/06 |
 Red Coats walk up into clouds 1/27/06 |  One comes back . . . 1/27/06 |  Gentoo 1/27/06 |
 Neil, Michal & Rookery 1/27/06 |  Gentoo, chick & probably expired egg 1/27/06 |  Leucistic Gentoo 1/27/06 |
 Steaming to Neko Harbor 1/27/06 |  Zodiacs lowered with driver on board 1/27/06 |  Boarding zodiacs 1/27/06 |
 Early molting Gentoo at Neko Harbor 1/27/06 |  Gentoo back and forth to sea to feed 1/27/06 |  Ship dodging bergs 1/27/06 |
 Neil & Michal and Rudolph Glacier 1/27/06 |  Weddell Seal - not very concerned 1/27/06 |  Berg, including underwater 1/27/06 |
 Lots of Brash Ice 1/27/06 |  Gerlache Strait 1/27/06 |  Orcas Whales in Gerlache Strait 1/27/06 |
 Steaming to Lemaire channel 1/28/06 |  Approaching Lemaire Channel 1/28/06 |  Lemaire looks blocked 1/28/06 |
 Lemaire Channel blocked 1/28/06 |
 Crabeater Seal from Zodiac in Lemaire Channel area 1/28/06 |  Zodiac peek-a-boo with Picaso Ice Bergs 1/28/06 |
 Just some more great mountains 1/28/06 |  Gentoo feeding, Weinke Isl 1/28/06 |  Whale Bones 1/28/06 |
 Neil on Weinke Isl 1/28/06 |  Michal found life in tidal pool 1/28/06 |  Dad explains Red Coats to son 1/28/06 |
 Gentoo gets water by eating ice 1/28/06 |  Blue-eyed shag & Gentoo chicks 1/28/06 |  Approaching Port Lockroy 1/28/06 |
 Michal arrives Port Lockroy 1/28/06 |  Old supplies Port Lockroy 1/28/06 |  Zodiac & lots of ice 1/28/06 |
 Mother & 7 Sisters 1/28/06 |  Cruising Neumeyer Channel 1/28/06 |
 About as close to a Sunset we ever saw . . . 1/28/06 |
 Whale tail 1/29/06 |
 Humpbacks near Zodiac 1/29/06 |  About to be a calf? 1/29/06 |
 Small whaling wrecks at Enterprise Isl 1/29/06 |  Approaching whaling wreck 1/29/06 |  Explosive harpoon heads in wreck 1/29/06 |
 Blue-eyed Shags 1/29/06 |  Michal at on-deck BBQ 1/29/06 |  Heading to Paradise Bay 1/29/06 |
 Abandoned Argentinian Almirante Brown Station 1/29/06 |  Paradise Bay was calm 1/29/06 |  More Paradise Bay 1/29/06 |
 The Iceberg won!!! 1/29/06 |  Antarctic Tern that dive- bombed us when we landed 1/29/06 |  Up the hill at the station 1/29/06 |
 View from the top 1/29/06 |
 Sliding back down 1/29/06 |  Looking back up 1/29/06 |
 Rock with lichen 1/29/06 |
 Reflection . . . 1/29/06 |  Skua up close 1/29/06 |
 Michal cruising with a sea breeze 1/29/06 |  Neil at night 1/29/06 |  Entering the Deception Isl Caldera 1/30/06 |
 Ruins at Whalers Bay, DI 1/30/06 |  Neil checks out cruising in the caldera 1/30/06 |  Deception Island 1/30/06 |
 Michal on deck 1/30/06 |  Chilean Station ruined in 1969 eruption and steaming waters at shoreline 1/30/06 |  Hot landing 1/30/06 |
 Neil at Chilean Station 1/30/06 |  Station artifact? 1/30/06 |  Our footprints in fine, soft eruption products 1/30/06 |
 Deception Isl snowpack covered with eruption debris 1/30/06 |  Michal surrounded by eruption debris 1/30/06 |  Deception Isl Hot tub 1/30/06 |
 Naturalist Rodolfo tries the Hot Tub 1/30/06 (with trunks) |  Jellyfish in caldera waters 1/30/06 |  And a Starfish 1/30/06 |
 Active base in the caldera 1/30/06 |  Bailey Head outside caldera Giant rookeries 1/30/06 |  Beach of Penguins1/30/06 |
 Porpoising Penguins 1/30/06 |  Attack of the Chinstraps!!! Must be time to leave 1/30/06 |  A last look at Antarctica and into Drake Passage 1/30/06 |
 Drake Passage a bit rougher on return trip 1/31/06 |  Our view of Cape Horn . . . 2/1/06 |  Coming down Beagle Channel 2/1/06 |
 Pilot comes aboard for Ushuaia docking 2/1/06 |  THE END |