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DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

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Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

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This chaos was totally avoidable.

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Today, pictures from valued commenter arrieve.

 

Where it was taken: Antarctica
When: January 2018

Last month I fulfilled a longtime dream and went to Antarctica. I had long planned that this would be my retirement present to myself, and even though I’ve had to push the retirement part back a bit, I decided that was no reason not to do the trip as originally planned.

Our itinerary started in Punta Arenas, Chile. We flew to the Falklands and boarded the ship there, sailed two days across the Drake Passage, and then spent eight days sailing around the Antarctic. It was everything I had hoped for and more – spectacular scenery and wildlife, and interesting historical sites as well. I’m still going through the pictures but here’s a small sample.

The Lemaire Channel:

 

This is probably the largest iceberg we saw, in Cierva Cove – it was taller than our ship.

 

Most of my best iceberg pictures were taken from the zodiacs, where we got so close I could, and did, touch them.

 

The picture below is from Wilhelmina Bay. This was our first time out in the zodiacs, before I learned that I needed four layers and three pairs of socks if we weren’t going to be getting out of the boats and walking around. I was freezing and that turquoise water looked deceptively tropical.

 

Crabeater seals in Iceberg Alley.

Gentoo penguins lining up to go for a swim in Cierva Cove.

Thank you so much arrieve, do send us more when you can.

This has always been on my bucket list as well. Your wonderful pictures have moved it up the list, and forced me to double-underline it!

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    satby

    arrieve, outstanding! So happy you got your early retirement present to yourself, and that you shared such fantastic pictures with us. Just wonderful.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @arrieve: Yup, when Madame took our pics from Alaska to work(she worked in a one hour photo shop), the lady who did the printing thought the colors were all wrong. Nope, that’s the way they look.

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    arrieve

    @Mary G: It was, but it was actually colder in New York before I left. The temperatures were around the freezing mark most days, so it wasn’t that bad. Sometimes I went out on the deck of the ship in just a fleece sweater and I was fine, at least long enough to take a few pictures. After an hour in the zodiacs though I was always cold no matter how many layers I wore because we weren’t moving around. It was worth it for the chance to get close to the ice though.

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    Baud

    Damn, that’s cool. Hope I can make it there before all the ice is gone. Congrats on fulfilling a bucket list item.

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    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    Stunning! And how very cool to get to go see that. Thanks for the terrific pictures.

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    JPL

    @arrieve: Thanks for your comment because when I saw the pictures, they were of course beautiful, but also chilling. What a wonderful trip.

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    debbie

    @JPL:

    Best On the Road pictures yet! I’m too old to talk like this, but totally awesome!

    I have to ask, how could you touch an iceberg without scraping up whatever boat you were in?

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    Robyn

    Wow! Incredible photos. Thank you for sharing them. I’m going to have to add this trip to my own bucket list now.

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    arrieve

    @debbie: The zodiacs are pretty tough. They could ease up along the side of the iceberg until we could reach out and touch it. This was only the smaller icebergs — you have to stay a safe distance away from the bigger ones because they can flip over or calve and you don’t want to be next to them if they do. But in Cierva Cove we drove right through a carpet of sea ice and it was noisy but doable.

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    TomatoQueen

    All the superlatives, and zillions of bonus points for the seals and the Gentoo penguins.

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    Ohio Mom

    Our planet is a very weird place. We get used to our corner of it and forget how strange it is in total.

    What a reminder these photos are!

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    cosima

    Wow wow wow. Those are amazing photos. What an incredible trip to have taken. What a shame that these places are being so dramatically changed for the worse — so fortunate for you to have had the opportunity to see that beautiful place. It must have been completely awe-inspiring.

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    J R in WV

    @arrieve:

    So, wild guess, Lindblad Expeditions, National Geographic Orion, (or maybe the N G Explorer?) and they do it in January because that’s midsummer in Antarctica…

    Congratulations, whoever took you to a fabulous place, and great pictures!

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    arrieve

    @J R in WV: Good guess, but actually no — I tried to sign up with NatGeo and got waitlisted. So I ended up going with a Canadian company called One Ocean Expeditions instead. It worked out better in the end because they had a lot of different itineraries to choose from and I was able to pick one that went below the Antarctic Circle, which meant we got to visit a couple of sites tourists don’t often see. Also tourism in Antarctica is tightly regulated so you can’t have more than 100 people go ashore at one time. Our ship had 94 people, so that was never an issue. I highly, highly recommend them for those of you who have this on your own bucket lists. (Also they turned out to be cheaper than NatGeo, so that was helpful — got to stay several days in Santiago.)

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    Miss Bianca

    Well, OK, you’ve done it to me. I have never – as in, never ever – felt the slightest urge to visit the South Pole. Till now.

    Thanks! (I think?).//

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    maurinsky

    Wow! I have a friend from high school who was recently in Antarctica with Greenpeace, but I think maybe you’ve shared more pictures than he did!

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