Greetings from Antarctica!
Published Thursday, February 13th 2020 - Updated Thursday, February 13th 2020
Few cruises can give you the variety of weather available on a South America cruise, where one day you're in Buenos Aires or Montevideo where it is 89 degrees Fahrenheit and humid, then at sea with perfect 74 degree sunshine, to brisk fall weather looking at penguins in the Falkland Islands followed by freezing weather amid enormous ice bergs of Antarctica.
Fittingly, Antarctica happens to be at the nexus of concerns about climate change, a fascinating subject touched on frequently during lectures aboard Coral Princess.
We happened to be wrapping up our South America/Antarctica cruise on a tour to Chile's Casablanca Valley, tasting delicious wine at Viña Indómita when Antarctica broke it's highest recorded temperature ever.
Of course, the thermometer-recorded track record is not that long.
Antarctica was discovered only 200 years ago, in 1820, though in the 4th Century B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle theorized there could be a place on the polar opposite of the earth from "Arktos," a place he called "Antarktikos."
It truly can be the trip of a lifetime for those who choose to make the long flights to visit the End of the World.
I'll be telling you more about it soon.
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