Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

- Mark Hoppus

For my 40th birthday, I took a boat from Ushuaia in Argentina to visit the 7th continent at the bottom of the world. The landscape, the animals, and the weather are all unique and we were incredibly fortunate in how far south we were able to go.

At our most southern only 3,000 people were lower on the globe than we were.

 
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Fournier Bay

Fournier Bay gave us some of the closes encounters with whales that we had throughout our tour. Though not as close as our earlier Penguin experience in Neko Harbour, given the size of a Humpback, the extra distance was welcome!.

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