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I walked into the frigid water up to my waist..
At the water level of my waist I dove under and swam 4 strokes. The cold was so severe I could not swim another stroke, stood up and walked back out.
Carefully walking back out stepping on sharp volcanic rock bottom.
Trying to get the blood moving again.
I DID IT!!!!! We changed on the beach from our warm clothes into bathing suits and again back into our warm clothes on the beach.
Getting a congratulations from one of the crew members.
And talking and talking.. what else is new???
Just happened to shoot this photo of the on board Expedition and Education crew that made our trip so interesting and factual as we traveled the Antarctic region. They were all experts in their fields and shared the information during our cruise to Antarctic.
Departing Deception Island. A photo of some of the strata of the earth in the volcanic caldera.
First light of morning on the last day at sea viewing the bottom of the world as we know it, Tierra del Fuego, and the tip of South America. Having survived the rough seas of the Drake Passage now entering the Beagle Channel.
Arriving South America. The Andes to the left and Patagonia ahead and to the right.
The outside entrance back into Ushuaia and Argentina. What an incredible experience this has been. To set foot on the Antarctic Continent. The 7th of all Continents in the world and the 7th for me. To visit, see, walk and climb up on, to smell, swim in the Antarctic Ocean in a bay in freezing waters. To see up close different types of penguins, seals, birds; to cruise around in a zodiac around gigantic icebergs, view the beauty of Antarctic in cold dreary days and the beautiful sunlit hours. To meet with the people that make their life studying Antarctic and work during the short season in Antarctic. It was a magical trip I will never forget.

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