Caught In Snowstorm - Antarctica Expedition Part 6
what's up guys it's uh day two expiration but this time I'm going kayaking all right guys so hey oh I love your glasses okay because we're brother and sister oh okay let's go I heard you guys saw whales yesterday it was who are we and what do we want foreign [Music] yesterday with you paddling this is my mistake I didn't say some of you were passing really high they were your body like this we tried to keep the paddling always below our eyes so we battle here not here when you feel your paddling too high the blade that is out of the water that can is too high what is the problem with that waste of energy waste of energy you can hurt your shoulder because there's a lot of weight in the shoulder Plus the ball becomes less stable again pure physics the tiger you are in your boat the less stable it is so you want to make yourself small yeah yes so we want to be as short as possible so we battle with the can in front of the chest we say read the watch is it still okay but more than reading the watch not okay to keep it low low angle all right guys you got that it is a beautiful day yeah it's very bright actually without the Sun but still a bright day probably different conditions because it makes the whole experience very different so to start yesterday was amazing no wind very sunny yeah yeah but most of the days are cloudy okay yeah okay not normal it's so cloudy but it's not normal to have a really sunny day here okay guys people are unbarking here oh this is my first time so everybody else I think everybody knows are accustomed to doing this already okay hi hello did you guys take pictures of the whale yesterday yeah we have an amazing video I will share with you oh yes it touches um why did I didn't go yesterday don't be pity because today we will see more okay positive I like that positivity we need to coordinate foreign [Music] of the ship guys in front and I'm just a guy that steers the boat Wherever She Goes okay snowing while we're kayaking right now it's not my first time kayaking but it was my first with a partner what I learned from the experience was communication is the key when paddling it's easy to get out of sync so keep that open line of communication that way you guys can have a good session guys there is a sea well in front of us hanging out living his best life okay my battery is almost dead I didn't know I was recording that much all right all right guys it is super snowy well it's not I don't know if you can see that but uh we decided to cut 20 minutes early yeah good run though yeah yeah good one beautiful birthday right you get to see this land okay just water fresh water all right guys so we made it back to Mainland and uh there's another research building we're gonna go check out and maybe see some other animals lands High this is Horseshoe Island [Music] this is our research building was ponied for two years in the 50s seven okay oh so we're really back in time right here right yeah this is the closest you get to a time machine so this base was built 1955. they started to work a little bit before that but 1955 and it was occupied until 19 is it working is the red light on no I'm just making sure it's not blurry because they could do that it's good now uh the base was built 1955 uh it was sort of occupied permanently until about 1957 and then um they used it as a kind of like a station Hut so they would come Expeditions that would go through the area they would stop by um and use it and they used it right up until sort of late 60s and as you go through this is one of the most complete uh Huts used by the British um back in the last century and so you will find uh approximately 10 000 conserved items in here wow so it's like all the furniture the food oh this is different from what we saw yesterday this is very different yeah this is very different this is one of the best preserved British Huts uh in the Antarctic the the only one that comes close to this is possibly Port loughri which is base a this is base y all right so good to see um some old uh housing it's like super cold here [Music] we go sorry guys it was this has been looking so blurry here but uh yeah this is a another base what is this prepare dry vegetables and fruits prepare fruits so on the way this is a pit stop to get where they need to go yeah so they use it as a bit of a pit stop after the late 50s but it was kind of preserved as like a refuge Hut so all of the food is still here and you'll recognize Brands so there's like Maxwell House Coffee for example or um Birds custard so you'll you'll find all sorts of things and the beauty of the Antarctic is subtle there aren't many places where humans um left their mark on the land and this is one of the earliest and it's yeah it's amazing really really cool upstairs is not available we can't go say it's too dark and to be honest we don't know what's up there okay but there is a Radio Room there's a generator room the kitchen oh they have the flag here too yeah there's the British flag the Union Jack waiting to fly again one day any alcohol found here I haven't seen any booze but I'd imagine there was a little bit that's something that they made sure they use they definitely use all of that up oh check out this old newspaper from um what year is that oh 1957 1957 August August 30th 1957. but it says Russia throws aside West disarmament plan in no it's no with a snow well that's kind of crazy because how long it would have took them to get this new flavor here well this would have been secondhand news right yeah so by the time a ship arrived this would have been months old yeah that's something to read right something to read yes I'm gonna go through of course they had a radio set where they could also receive news the divorce rumors oh my God they were doing that right now they were discovering that news about Public Training oh Lord no more sleeping oh you don't even know it's just tons of food up there this is my food wow oh excuse me it's just so dark wow my mind yeah a little bit full of the traditional Brands okay this is the Radio Room [Applause] codes you would use maybe they made it a Haitian made Landing oh man there you go, guys, most definitely Walking Through Time guys what do you think oh this looks like a cozy room okay wow they have the queen here says the following are a few hints you may find useful in cold there should be some bags of coal outside the front door if not the rest are on the Rocks down by the boats uh kindling wood is in the workshop water the water tank is in the kitchen is not connected up to the stove but given time in several days it will tear out food is to be found scattered throughout the Hut mainly in the old bunk room if you run out of flower there are two bloody great piles outside the Hut if you run out of flour there are two bloody great piles outside the hunt whoever like left that is he has a sense of humor and then who are these oh we got the good stuff now there we go we got a little sexy mama oh this is how they pass the tide where we go Laura Morton in the house baby baby looking floor in the house [Music] ah much better than yesterday's snow yesterday snow was kicking my butt this this is fresh from last night now I come to make my first snowball my first snowball [Music] oh pink one over there you were recording it or you took pictures I've got videos because it lasts you could go like this when you record she likes to record like this you need to record this wig it's better like a portrait or landscape the landscape landscape is better yes okay all right this is day two stop number two currently what they're doing is they're sending a scouting team right now to see if the conditions are safe for us to make landfall this is what they'll do every single day whenever they get to a new place uh just to check to see if the conditions are even worth us um trying to make landfall also because I'm part of the kayak team we also get notified and so we just got notified from a kayak team they're saying that the wind right now is just too much for the kayaks to go in the water but Zodiacs might be able to do it it all depends depending on the conditions on the island and so forth so I'm just gonna have to see yesterday around this time it wasn't feasible for us it was really foggy it was raining it didn't make any sense but today who knows I don't know where they're gonna make landfall but this place is amazing and you can you can see all these ice glaciers surrounding this whole area right here full of ice it's a beautiful thing man this whole thing look at that I'm showing you this because if you're taking a cruise regardless of cruise lines or who you're going with you need to understand something conditions are key all right conditions are not perfect they're not right I can determine whether or not you are going to be taking a trip okay I see the they're coming from that way looks like they're looking at that uh patch of land so yeah if conditions are not correct there's a possibility oh yeah this is well over there I just seen the spin yeah if the conditions are not right you won't be going online okay I'm telling you just uh say this I met this woman southerly woman she just came from a trip here in Antarctica and she gave me the best advice and the best advice was to go with the flow enjoy yourself enjoy it all but don't don't get uh stuck on Plants because say you're bound to change it might not happen all right but if you go with the flow I guarantee you will enjoy your time and you appreciate what you get to see are you eating this boats and the ship is simply too large and we don't wish to have an accident not here in this part of the world we're just too far from any external assistance so we've recalled our boats to the ship and Sarah is now returning from her scouting and we'll give you another update shortly Just for information our Landing activity this afternoon is now canceled sadly this news discouraged to passengers because they were looking forward to making official landfall on the content of Antarctica because before then all we've been doing is discovering the islands surrounding the continent and as the days go by we can only wonder will we officially make landfall before the Excursion is over we knew this would be a risk we would take that possibly we wouldn't make landfall and so did the staff of the Excursion so they decided to head north in hopes for better conditions and on our way we were able to see something amazing foreign [Music] School of orca decided to escort us North it was our first and only time seeing them as I marveled at their beauty I could only be reminded by that wise woman's words just go with the flow in the midst of a storm we can take our time to enjoy its beauty although for us the storm had yet to pass all right guys uh we are about to hit what is this day three in Arctic Circle day three in the Arctic Circle and we're about to take a two and a half hour ride boat ride around the area Sovereign area hopefully we see some um Wildlife okay so a lot of people have been lucky to see some Wildlife seeing some close-up Penguins some seals some whales some orchids yesterday orcas not orchids okay what did you learn about the flower killer whales what you learning about killer whales the most important thing about killer whales what they are dolphins guys all this time Free Willy was a dolphin okay Free Willy is not a whale okay he's a dolphin okay let's go hi my name is Leo and I'm from Miami are we introducing myself yeah so we can know who died where they were from Brittany Marie Last Place Washington there you go planet Earth there we go first of all I would like to make a safety introduction okay breathing because as you see the swell is huge today yeah and the weather so please see tight anytime okay okay and someone fall into the water at the one you see the people who in the world please point it and tell me the other passengers please we made in Thief I will deal with it okay okay rule number two if I fall into the water this cream for the stock engine the Zodiac will stop and you are safe and I won't be far away from the store yet I can rescue myself okay so please try not to drive the Zodiac or do something else and try to for help ing somewhere all right guys so we're entering the Antarctic water for in a somewhat saw a snowstorm to see if we can find some Wildlife we're going to be doing this for around two hours so let's go hit that thumbs up if you enjoyed this unique um [Music] thank you foreign it is a hard experience to describe being on a zodiac heading into the abyss of the Antarctic ocean during a snowstorm the thought of the boat flipping did cross our mind but we were distracted of how our heart made us feel so alive at that moment of the uncertainty of what could happen next as we move deeper into the cold Barren ocean our cruise ship slowly disappeared through the snow the snow would block our visibility even with goggles on it was a very cold moment the Ice start melting in my hands and seeping through my gloves causing my chance to freeze like one thing that was apparent was the crew was on a mission to make up for lost time and change plans they knew the passengers wanted to see landfall but unfortunately due to the harsh weather they couldn't deliver that so they gave us the next best thing we head deep in the middle of the Frozen Antarctica ocean in hopes to see something amazing but unfortunately he didn't all right guys we've been on the vote for around close to 40 minutes I have not seen anything other but a sea whale uh not to see what a sea lion a seal I haven't seen anything other than the field uh but it's quick it was quick couldn't happen all right we trying to stay close together because it is a snowstorm though not really a lot of visibility here so I just wanna show everybody [Music] but I think it's going to be difficult to attract animals with all this movement in the water after one hour in the rough snowing sea the passengers grew tired and decided to head back to the Excursion Cruise even more dismayed by the knowledge that the weather would be the same the next day at this point many questions did we get our monies worth and the truth is we did it was not the crew's fault you see Antarctica weather is so unpredictable that there's no way of knowing whether or not you're going to have a sunny day or a perfect day and so the crews did the best they can do to make sure we had the best experience possible in the situation we were in after getting back on the boat a group of the passengers decided to participate in the night activities with drinks opera singing and Tango dancing little do we know something amazing would happen next tell me somebody okay [Music] foreign touch me and I'll make you understand [Music] [Music] before you I was paralyzed all broken down from heartbreak and you came and set me free you've taken me to paradise when nothing is a mistake but we move so flawlessly do you know the things it's kind of crazy out of nowhere something came over us that night and it was more than alcohol maybe it was the fact that we knew we were the most southern ship in the world dancing under the Moonlight in the middle of nowhere it was kind of outer World actually that night we left all our frustrations on the Dance Floor we danced like we were family and perhaps we were after all all we had was us if something were to happen we can only rely on ourselves we dance like the children of God as he intended people from all different backgrounds just enjoying their time Antarctica is a magical place since we arrived I've never dreamed so clear and pure in my life and now on the dance floor at this moment the same energy is overflowing I felt like I was know a ship perhaps God was looking at us well I like to think that dancing and cheering we did open the doors of Heaven to shine on us because on the next day what was supposed to be a stormy day God did the unpredictable if you enjoyed this video hit that like button and don't miss the Epic views of the next episode I guarantee you they will shock you [Music]
2023-01-27 10:09
