{"id":4457,"date":"2009-01-27T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2009-01-27T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T12:54:00","slug":"cruise-weekly-comment-hard-edge-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/01\/cruise-weekly-comment-hard-edge-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Weekly Comment: Hard Edge Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SX8EV8XawSI\/AAAAAAAAFwg\/0s5zcxuEjxM\/s1600-h\/Polar+Plunge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 131px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SX8EV8XawSI\/AAAAAAAAFwg\/0s5zcxuEjxM\/s200\/Polar+Plunge.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295956461839106338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cruiseweekly.com.au\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 200px; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cruiseweekly.com.au\/App_Themes\/cruiseweekly\/images\/logo.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cruiseweekly.com.au\/\">Cruise Weekly<\/a> \u2013  Comment by Roderick Eime<\/p>\n<p>Softies eh? I get the impression some folk still think adventure cruising is just another way of sipping cocktails around the pool bar \u2013 at a premium price.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you with a taste for the harder edge can do stuff to really get their attention at Silvia\u2019s next dinner party.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the cruise companies will offer a range of activities with gold medal bragging rights like scuba diving, mountaineering, trekking, ice swimming and sea kayaking. The easiest wet one is Pendulum Cove on Deception Island where a volcanic thermal vent keeps a small patch of water warm, but for some that\u2019s cheating. Orion Expedition passengers do the \u201cpolar plunge\u201d, an Antarctic Circle tradition in the sub-zero waters of the deep south while drinking a toast to King Neptune. Brrr!<\/p>\n<p>Shore excursions like Greg Mortimer\u2019s Shackleton Crossing is a true heroic trek, following the great explorer\u2019s route across South Georgia \u2013 albeit at a more relaxed pace. On the water, a sea kayak is one of the most intimate ways to experience the pristine environments at either end of the Earth and several operators now offer this. Pitching a tent for one night ashore on the Antarctic continent is another way to get a taste of the privations endured a century ago. Captain Scott died in his tent, but you won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you have a hankering for something outside your comfort zone, quiz your agent about the tough stuff. You\u2019ll never live it down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruise Weekly \u2013 Comment by Roderick Eime Softies eh? I get the impression some folk still think adventure cruising is just another way of sipping cocktails around the pool bar \u2013 at a premium price. Those of you with a taste for the harder edge can do stuff to really get their attention at Silvia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[336,324,323],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aurora-expeditions","tag-cruise-weekly","tag-orion-expedition-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}