domingo, 27 de diciembre de 2009

sábado, 12 de diciembre de 2009

First news from the white continent!

Here I am, in my quiet room at Dumont Durville station, Terre Adélie,
Antartica...
The journey was long and not really confortable, but exciting as well.
After an 11 hours flight from Paris on 1st of december we visited
Hong-Kong for a day. Honk-Kong is an amazing city, mixing modernism and
tradition. After walking 10 hours through the city we flew to Sydney were
we had a short stop (but long enough to have a drink on a terrasse,
enjoying australian summer...) and finally we took our last plane to
Hobart, Tasmania. There the boat was waiting for us, and the day after we
started with our final journey, a 7 days-long trip through the agitated
antartic ocean... I got terrible sea-sick and spent 4 days in bed. But
when I got up, I could see the first icebergs, penguins, and seals from
the boat wich was slowly making his way through the ice... Amazing...
The boat finally got stuck 30 miles from the coast and we had to finish
our journey by helicopter to reach the station.
And we got to know our new home, with the thousands of Adelie penguins
nesting on each single rock of the island, the amazing landscape we have
from our dormitory, the nearby emperor penguins colony...The sea-ice is
about to disapear around the station so we enjoy the last walks around
before beeing stuck for the rest of the summer on our small island. We
have to be carefull on each step, few people already had a cold bath this
week..

Pictures are to come in next posts...

miércoles, 2 de diciembre de 2009

miércoles, 30 de septiembre de 2009

My future antartic family


Here we are, the future 26 selected to spend one year at the french antartic base, Dumont D'Urville.

viernes, 26 de junio de 2009

Seal Rehabilitation and Research Center


Hola amigos!
Para empezar con este blog, pondre algunas fotos de mi estancia en Holanda con las foquitas...