Tasmania, Antarctica and New Zealand, 2013

In Tasmania we visited Mt. Field National Park and hiked around Russell Falls and Lake Seal. We also went to Cradle Mountain National Park to finish a hike up Cradle Mountain we tried to do in 1996 but failed due to weather. This time we had great weather and reached the top! After visiting these two National Parks we went to Hobart to pick up our ship traveling down to the Ross Sea of Antarctica. We visited Macquarie Island on the way to Cape Evans and Cape Royds in the Ross Sea. There we visited Cape Evans and Robert Scott's hut from his ill-fated expedition in 1911 to the South Pole and passed by Shackleton's Hut at Cape Royds from his nearly-successful 1908 expedition to the South Pole. We returned north visiting Campbell Island on the way to New Zealand's South Island and spent a month exploring the Milford Track, the Caitlins, Mt. Cook, the Heaphy Track and the Kaikoura region. For more details, visit our blog entries at: G'day From Down Under, Where Ferns are Trees and Rock the Cradle, Devils on the Brink & a Bonus Peak, Our Antarctic Expedition Begins, The Magic of Macquarie, Ice Floes and Woes, To the Southern End of the Earth, Treasures of the Ross Sea, Campbell, Island of Rarities, "Finest Walk in the World", Pinnipeds in Peril and Penguin Paparazzi, Pinnipeds in Peril and Penguin Paparazzi, Better the Second Time Around, "A Journey of Contrasts", and A Whale's Tale & Dolphin Joy.

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