Westpoint Island After an eternity at sea (less than two days for me) we sighted land in the early morning: The West Falklands. Excited as little boys going camping we packed and check our gear and boarded the Zodiacs in a little bay of Westpoint Island. Between us and land, in the 500 meters or…
My Travels: Thinking or Sinking
Every time I think of a boat (and here I was on a small one) I think of a joke told to me by my German Scrub Sister, Hans Hoecker. A British ship was sunk by German U-boat in the Second World War, and the radio operator sent out a distress signal: “Mayday,Mayday! We are…
My Travels: A Mountain Goat on a Boat
For those of you who do not know me in motion, I suffer severely from motion sickness. It is so serious that if I do not take medication I almost die. On my honeymoon in Kenya twenty one years ago I ran out of medication for the flight from Nairobi through the Rift valley at…
My Travels: An African en Route to the Antarctic – Ushuaia
I am not sure why I decided to go there. Like many good things in my life it was idea that germinated a long time ago and when the opportunity arose it came to fruition. One of my uncle’s was a radio operator on the South African Antarctic base when I was a child. Then…
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