{"id":9200,"date":"2014-12-19T22:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T03:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=9200"},"modified":"2014-12-19T22:12:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T03:12:41","slug":"one-year-ago-today-our-antarctic-voyage-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2014\/12\/one-year-ago-today-our-antarctic-voyage-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"One year ago today: our Antarctic voyage begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chrisicon2.jpg\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" alt=\"A post by Chris Rowan\"\/><\/span><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/anneicon.jpg\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" alt=\"A post by Anne Jefferson\"\/><\/span>You may recall that last Christmas, your intrepid bloggers managed to find ourselves on the trip of a lifetime to the Antarctic. We&#8217;re pretty sure that Geokid was Santa&#8217;s most southerly delivery on Christmas Eve. We <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/category\/antarctica\/\">have posted the odd photo of our trip<\/a>, but somehow in a very hectic year we have not shared as many of the amazing sights, sounds and memories of our cruise around the Antarctic Peninsula as we would have liked &#8211; and we&#8217;d like to change that. So over the next few days, we&#8217;re going to indulge in a bit of time travel and show you what we were up to this time last year. Life is still busy, so there&#8217;s no guarantee of much insightful commentary, but quite frankly, it&#8217;s mostly unnecessary. And I think we can guarantee penguins. Lots of penguins. <\/p>\n<p>So: exactly one year ago today, the fair ship <i>Corinthian<\/i> departed Ushuaia in Southern Argentina, heading east along the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beagle_Channel\">Beagle Channel<\/a> (yes, <em>that<\/em> Beagle). That morning, we had gotten an all-too-brief taste of the spectacular scenery of Tierra del Fuego National Park up close: now, aided by some rather spectacular evening weather, we got a slightly wider view.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9201\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2014\/12\/one-year-ago-today-our-antarctic-voyage-begins\/p1000572\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9201\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000572-600x396.jpg\" alt=\"Lago Roca, Tierra del Fuego National Park.\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000572-600x396.jpg 600w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000572-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000572-900x594.jpg 900w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000572.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lago Roca, Tierra del Fuego National Park. Photo: Chris Rowan, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9202\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2014\/12\/one-year-ago-today-our-antarctic-voyage-begins\/p1000663\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9202\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9202\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000663-600x316.jpg\" alt=\"Looking west along the Beagle Channel\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000663-600x316.jpg 600w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000663-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000663-900x474.jpg 900w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000663.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking west along the Beagle Channel. Photo: Chris Rowan, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the sun went down, the mountains were being left behind and the open ocean was beckoning. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9203\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2014\/12\/one-year-ago-today-our-antarctic-voyage-begins\/p1000706\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9203\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000706-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Cruising towards the eastern end of the Beagle Channel. Photo: Chris Rowan, 2013.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000706-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000706-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000706-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1000706.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cruising towards the eastern end of the Beagle Channel. Photo: Chris Rowan, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that last Christmas, your intrepid bloggers managed to find ourselves on the trip of a lifetime to the Antarctic. We&#8217;re pretty sure that Geokid was Santa&#8217;s most southerly delivery on Christmas Eve. We have posted the odd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2014\/12\/one-year-ago-today-our-antarctic-voyage-begins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[696,26],"tags":[491,764,763],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-photos","tag-argentina","tag-beagle-channel","tag-tierra-del-fuego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9207,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions\/9207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}