Fossilized cthulu

Beautiful

There are companies who do expeditions down there. I know Nation Geographic often goes down there. They can be spendy trips, but I eyeball them hard all the time. I'd like to get to all seven continents as part of my bucket list, and that trip would knock off two of them!

Thanks!

I agree it was an amazing experience.

Beautiful

Amazing, thank you so much!

Found my new background, thank you

Not much of a hike really, leap over a barrier at the roadside and try not to fall on my ass whilst going down a steep hill, it was somewhat dug out from lots of people going there over the years, if you were to head there after heavy rainfall I imagine it would be very boggy underfoot! 5/10 min walk tops I'd say 👍

A bit of both. I got to leave the ship once or twice a day, depending on where we were. See my response to u/StuckInLazlosBasemen (here) for more. We visited only one active base (Port Lockroy). A lot of transit by zodiacs...

Best way is of course having already been on several so you have expertise. That's not me! I would love to go again...

What was the hike like? Was there a pathway dug out or was it more of an instance where you had to try and figure out where you were going using a map?

We were on a small ship, so I spent a lot of time outside taking photos as things went by. There were a fair number of other ships, and there was a well-enforced limit on how many people could be on land at a time, so there was a fair amount of waiting for our turn. I spent some of that waiting time talking to the people who had been there before or who had other special knowledge (there was a penguin specialist, an astrophysicist, an geologist, a record holding kayaker, etc., not to mention some impressive photographers). Sometimes we didn't land at all, but toured the shoreline (or icebergs) in a zodiac. I really enjoyed that the wildlife was unafraid, so while we didn't walk right up to them (as we had been instructed about), they sometimes came right up to us.

What was the expedition like did you get to leave the ship at any point and visit the bases or was it more like an extremely cold cruise?

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More interesting the way you caught it.

Swan Hellenic has exploratory ships. They are smaller than cruise ships and you get to go on Antarctica.

Wow, how do you go about getting a private expedition invite?

Awesome! (feel free to post some of them)

Awesome! Such an incredible place

What was it like?? Tell me anything, I’m obsessed with polar travel

On the way back by, it definitely was. While I took this photo, the high winds distracted me

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I see it too!

Thank you for the clarification. That’s incredible!

But not twice as high as everything in the east. There are a few exceptions