We depart from Houston in a few hours so I am a little light on photographs so far.  To compensate, here are 2 links from one of last years sailings published by Phil Wickens, a British photographer and mountain climber.  I classify these links as a 'happy link' and a 'sad link'.  For those of you that want to feel the wonder of an Antarctic sail, click the first link.    For those of you that get some degree of satisfication from the greater suffering of others ('shadenfreude' as our German brothers would say) click the second link.   Go ahead, you know you want to.

http://www.philwickens.co.uk/Movies/Escape_From_The_Ice/

http://www.philwickens.co.uk/Movies/Sailing_to_Antarctica/