Date: 11 October 2008
Time: 4pm-5:30pm
Venue: Room 1232, Star House, Tsim Sai Tsui, Kowloon
Telephone: 27378333
**Event will be conducted in Cantonese**

We would like to share with you our photos and stories during our trip to the Antarctica during Jan/Feb 2008. If you are interested in wildlife (such as Penguins and Seals), wonderful landscape and adventures, please come and join us on 11 Oct. Limited places, RSVP required.
http://www.hkst.com/temp/SouthPole.html

Please reply by Fri 10 Oct 2008

Capacity: 25 people
Fee: HK$ 50 to cover the rent
Please RSVP to reserve your place.

We would like to share with you our photos and stories during our trip to the Antarctica during Jan/Feb 2008. If you are interested in wildlife (such as Penguins and Seals), wonderful landscape and adventures, please come and join us on 26 April. Limited places, RSVP required.

**THIS EVENT IS FULL** Thank you for your response

Please reply by Fri 25 April 2008

Some quick thoughts...

It doesn't seem that long ago that we were all excited in planning (August 2007) for our long trip to Antarctica, South America and Paris during January and February 2008. We have since returned to Hong Kong but the excitement stays. We felt a sense of achievement to have visited all 7 continents together and at the same time we felt deeply blessed. The Antarctica cruise was about wildlife, nature and history (explorers who came before us). To call it eye-opening maybe an understatement.

Antarctica is the last of the world's seven continents where Irene and I set foot together. We didn't think of it before the trip until a Cambridge student asked me if we would have been to all 7 continents after this expedition. In order to reach Antarctica, we had to go to Ushuaia (Argentina) where our cruise began. This brought us to the 6th continent on our list - South America, which is also a fascinating continent that we will return to at some point for sure.

The Antarctica trip was simply magnificent, plenty of wildlife (penguins, seals, Whales, birds, dolphins) and very impressive natural sceneries like icebergs, big sea waves and various untouched beaches. Not only was it eye opening, it made much impact on our view of life. There were 107 passengers on board of the vessel "Lyubov Orlova" (named after a Russian actress), most of our fellow travellers were retired, everyone have already travelled extensively, as one can appreciate, Antarctica is hardly a destination for beginners. Many people told us that "it is a good idea to start travelling and see the world when you are young, don't wait till your retirement".

• 20080114 Monday Day -1 Buenos Aires
• 20080115 Tuesday Day 0 Buenos Aires to Ushuaia
• 20080116 Wednesday Ushuaia Day 1 of the Antarctica trip
• 20080117 Thursday Day 2 At sea heading towards the Falkland Islands.
• 20080118 Friday Day 3 Carcass Island (Falkland Islands)
• 20080119 Saturday Day 4 Stanley, East Falkland Island

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We hope this album will make you go "WOW!".

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In the morning while we were having breakfast, people saw a few whales and everyone got out to watch them, I have taken some pictures but you can only see a small object in the photos. Fortunately, there were more whaling viewing in the afternoon and I was able to take some decent pictures and can clearly see that they were humback whales.

The morning landing was at Danco Island, we had been blessed with another great sunny day. I went up the hill with the group which was a good exercise, I was sweating despite the fact that we were supposed to be in the cold Antarctic region. There were also plenty of mini-icebergs on the shore in various melting states. They looked very artistics and with a stretch of imagination, we could see resemblence with many real objects. Sadly that was our last zodiac landing of this trip and we would be heading back to the open ocean and making our way to Ushuaia.

We got our one and only e-mail message today from our travel agent Mak, informing us that one of the flight schedules had been changed.

Click photo to view album

In the morning while we were having breakfast, people saw a few whales and everyone got out to watch them, I have taken some pictures but you can only see a small object in the photos. Fortunately, there were more whaling viewing in the afternoon and I was able to take some decent pictures and can clearly see that they were humback whales.

The morning landing was at Danco Island, we had been blessed with another great sunny day. I went up the hill with the group which was a good exercise, I was sweating despite the fact that we were supposed to be in the cold Antarctic region. There were also plenty of mini-icebergs on the shore in various melting states. They looked very artistics and with a stretch of imagination, we could see resemblence with many real objects. Sadly that was our last zodiac landing of this trip and we would be heading back to the open ocean and making our way to Ushuaia.

We got our one and only e-mail message today from our travel agent Mak, informing us that one of the flight schedules had been changed.