Gear for ship-borne photo trips: Waterproof boots and bags

Martin Bailey (who was one of the instructors we brought on the March/April 2011 Antarctica/Falklands/Patagonia Odyssey) is currently laid up recovering from surgery. But before all that happened, back in May he recorded several video episodes for his podcast about some of the equipment we used.

For those of you not already following Martin's blog/podcast, here are links to the episode about NEOS waterproof overshoes, and the episode about the dry-bag Martin used to carry his backpack inside during Zodiac excursions. Martin used a Seal Line Boundary Pack to carry his Guragear backpack, while I used a Seal Line WideMouth Duffle to transport my LowePro bag. I've used the same drybag on three Antarctic expeditions so far, and am still happy with it.

 Get better soon Martin!

Fleshing out the new site, including photos from past Odysseys

The new LuminOdyssey site continues to evolve. A lot of that is fine details, but one recent change has included links to the Flickr groups (for each of our Antarctic Odysseys) that participants have contributed images to. These can be found on the Past Odysseys page.

Winding down from Antarctica/Falklands/Patagonia

We're in Buenos Aires now, with various members of our party starting to split off. Some have flights out tonight to Peru, some are leaving tomorrow for Iguazu, and some of us are flying home to Australia tomorrow afternoon. I've got lots of material to post about next week, but this is just a quick note to say this is the end of the daily updates for now. After the travel slog has finished and any jet lag done away with (early next week) we'll be back in business.

The expedition has been great! We got to spend lots of time in amazing locations, and we all learnt a lot about photography while we were there, from basic camera technique through Lightroom processing to stitching huge panoramas in Photoshop. Thanks to Aurora Expeditions for helping us put this together!

Time to get back to work (travel) now. Home here we come!
(Except for those lucky people with weeks more to travel of course.)

Day 12: Egrets again

Far out at sea we're being followed by 6 Cattle Egrets! Tommorow we visit Beauchene Island then Stanley.

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Short message posted via satellite, sent from 54.83642S 59.07938W (South Atlantic Ocean)

Day 11: Mountains at sea

Force 10 seas in the Drake Passage, but following us so quite mild. Photo processing time!

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Short message posted via satellite, sent from 59.27186S 58.72756W (Antarctica, South Atlantic Ocean)