Sorry to drop off the face of the earth for a week.  Getting back to reality is a real drag!  I will be posting my photographs to my website (www.dempseyphotos.com) in about 2 weeks.  After that I will discontinue the blog and relax.  Here are a few fun pictures from our expedition. 

The advantage of sailing with a small crew is that you can set your own schedule and do things in groups of 1 instead of 100 like the cruise ships offer.  One thing you can do if you are a little daring is sledding.  Here is a photo of one of our crew tearing down a mountain.  What you can't see from the photo is the end of his ride, which came to a crash in the vast penquin peeing grounds.  He had it coming.

I decided to be the photographer for this, not because the end of the ride looked a bit dodgy, but because you had to carry your sled up to the top of the very steep hill.

Another crazy thing you can do is take a dip in the ocean, where the temperature can actually be below the normal freezing temperature of fresh water.  Here is Kris taking the plunge.  Another activity I opted out of:

Finally, no blog entry would be complete without an iceberg.  This one lingered around our anchorage and necessitated a night anchor watch rotation.  Being up, alone on the deck under a crystal clear sky at 2:00AM was almost worth the cost of the trip by itself.