After two days at sea we have spotted land!! King George Island to be exact, the location of our big race tomorrow! It is so surreal that at this current moment if I turn my head to the left I can see icebergs from ANTARCTICA!!
Our crossing of the drake passage was fairly smooth for the most part. When we say fairly smooth we mean fairly smooth considering it was the drake crossing. We both had motion sickness patches on and we still had waves (pun intend) of feeling awful. Our second night on the boat we had waves that were 8 METRES high!! Things were falling off our shelves and chairs slid across rooms.
We love all the passengers on our boat. They all come with such unique stories and experiences. Stacey especially loves the fact that everybody talks about running, one of her favourite topics. Many of these people have done some amazing things. One man has run more than 200 marathons (not including his half or ultra marathons)! He has done one in every state, this will be his last continent, and last year alone he ran 52!!
Today was our first excursion onto land! Both of us can now say we have been to all the continents! The zodiacs took us to an island called Penguin Island. The rock beach we landed on was covered in Antarctica fur seals. These bad boys can be a bit aggressive so we had to be a little bit careful. We only came across one that caused us a bit of a problem but we made it passed with all our fingers still. Of course, Penguin Island had a colony of penguins we got to go explore. Rachel managed to snap a selfie with the one little guy that walked right beside her. The swells picked up while we were gone and that meant our zodiac ride back to the boat was a wet bumpy one.
Tomorrow is RACE DAY!!! We are both feeling nervous but excited! We had a quick little briefing yesterday where they told us that the course has changed to an out and back that we have to complete 6 times for the full. This put us a bit more at ease as this new course is less muddy and less hilly than the original planned course. We can also cheer on everyone because we all be seeing each other multiple times throughout the race! Tomorrow at this time we will hopefully be half way done our race!
Our crossing of the drake passage was fairly smooth for the most part. When we say fairly smooth we mean fairly smooth considering it was the drake crossing. We both had motion sickness patches on and we still had waves (pun intend) of feeling awful. Our second night on the boat we had waves that were 8 METRES high!! Things were falling off our shelves and chairs slid across rooms.
We love all the passengers on our boat. They all come with such unique stories and experiences. Stacey especially loves the fact that everybody talks about running, one of her favourite topics. Many of these people have done some amazing things. One man has run more than 200 marathons (not including his half or ultra marathons)! He has done one in every state, this will be his last continent, and last year alone he ran 52!!
Today was our first excursion onto land! Both of us can now say we have been to all the continents! The zodiacs took us to an island called Penguin Island. The rock beach we landed on was covered in Antarctica fur seals. These bad boys can be a bit aggressive so we had to be a little bit careful. We only came across one that caused us a bit of a problem but we made it passed with all our fingers still. Of course, Penguin Island had a colony of penguins we got to go explore. Rachel managed to snap a selfie with the one little guy that walked right beside her. The swells picked up while we were gone and that meant our zodiac ride back to the boat was a wet bumpy one.
Tomorrow is RACE DAY!!! We are both feeling nervous but excited! We had a quick little briefing yesterday where they told us that the course has changed to an out and back that we have to complete 6 times for the full. This put us a bit more at ease as this new course is less muddy and less hilly than the original planned course. We can also cheer on everyone because we all be seeing each other multiple times throughout the race! Tomorrow at this time we will hopefully be half way done our race!