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Day 11 – Icebergs and whales
It’s day’s like today that define the entire Antarctic visitor experience. After breakfast we pulled anchor at Commonwealth Bay and set off in search of the world’s largest iceberg. Twelve months ago, two massive ice bodies the size of small European republics squared off. The 2500 sq km iceberg, B98, bore down on the similarly […]
Day 10: Home of the Blizzard
Location: 66 deg 60′ S, 142 deg 37′ EVessel: Spirit of Enderby, 1750 tons, 50 pax, 71.6m If I was hoping for a re-enactment of Mawson’s legendary ‘Home of the Blizzard’, then I would be bitterly disappointed. After ten days travelling south through NZ’s sub-Antarctic islands, then Macquarie Island to reach this ‘Great White South’, […]
Day 10: Home of the Blizzard
Location: 66 deg 60′ S, 142 deg 37′ EVessel: Spirit of Enderby, 1750 tons, 50 pax, 71.6m If I was hoping for a re-enactment of Mawson’s legendary ‘Home of the Blizzard’, then I would be bitterly disappointed. After ten days travelling south through NZ’s sub-Antarctic islands, then Macquarie Island to reach this ‘Great White South’, […]
Culinary Heavyweights Throw Support Behind Taste Festival
Three of Australia’s culinary icons have thrown their weight behind this year’s Taste Festival, Tasmania’s largest event, to be held on Hobart’s waterfront from December 28-January 3. Tetsuya Wakuda and Leo Schofield, AM, along with well-known Australian Master of Wine Andrew Corrigan, will all be involved in this year’s event. Tetsuya will officially open the […]
Culinary Heavyweights Throw Support Behind Taste Festival
Three of Australia’s culinary icons have thrown their weight behind this year’s Taste Festival, Tasmania’s largest event, to be held on Hobart’s waterfront from December 28-January 3. Tetsuya Wakuda and Leo Schofield, AM, along with well-known Australian Master of Wine Andrew Corrigan, will all be involved in this year’s event. Tetsuya will officially open the […]
Culinary Heavyweights Throw Support Behind Taste Festival
Three of Australia’s culinary icons have thrown their weight behind this year’s Taste Festival, Tasmania’s largest event, to be held on Hobart’s waterfront from December 28-January 3. Tetsuya Wakuda and Leo Schofield, AM, along with well-known Australian Master of Wine Andrew Corrigan, will all be involved in this year’s event. Tetsuya will officially open the […]
C Grill Launches New Website
C Grill Restaurant today announced the launch of its new website at http://www.cgrill.com.au. “Our new site plays a very important role in communicating not only with our existing guests, but also engaging our future guests,” says Adrian Teh, Hotel Manager for Chifley Hotel Wollongong. “It was important to design and build a best-in-class restaurant website […]
C Grill Launches New Website
C Grill Restaurant today announced the launch of its new website at http://www.cgrill.com.au. “Our new site plays a very important role in communicating not only with our existing guests, but also engaging our future guests,” says Adrian Teh, Hotel Manager for Chifley Hotel Wollongong. “It was important to design and build a best-in-class restaurant website […]
C Grill Launches New Website
C Grill Restaurant today announced the launch of its new website at http://www.cgrill.com.au. “Our new site plays a very important role in communicating not only with our existing guests, but also engaging our future guests,” says Adrian Teh, Hotel Manager for Chifley Hotel Wollongong. “It was important to design and build a best-in-class restaurant website […]
Day 9 – approaching Commonwealth Bay and the Antarctic Circle
“The sun, already high in the heavens, for we were in latitude 65degS, bathed it with light, causing it to stand out in vivid contrast to the cobalt ocean and sombre gloom of the distance. As I gazed at the wonderful and, to me, novel sight, I felt that we were at last really at […]
