“Just back from another exhilarating experience at the tip of the world, we are all struggling with ‘land sickness’ while we adjust to a non-moving environment. We are also slowly adapting to city life, which has now replaced our daily views of breathtaking mountains, ancient glaciers, and splendid waterfalls. And we begin to miss our everyday companions, the lazy moulting elephant seals, the majestic albatross, the frenzied Magellanic penguins and of course, the eternally roaring winds.

“While we are sad it is over, our recent trip to Admiralty Sound, on the verge of the remote lands of Karukinka, has been very productive.”

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