{"id":89,"date":"2012-12-02T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.swoop-antarctica.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2012-12-02T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T14:36:18","slug":"review-of-7-day-antarctic-peninsula-fly-and-cruise-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swoop-antarctica.com\/blog\/review-of-7-day-antarctic-peninsula-fly-and-cruise-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of 7-Day Antarctic Peninsula Fly-and-Cruise Day 1:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Ocean-Nova2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Ocean Nova \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Ocean-Nova2.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brimming over with excitement at the thought of flying over the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-antarctica.com\/landmark\/drake-passage\/\">Drake Passage<\/a>\u00a0and seeing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-antarctica.com\/landmark\/lemaire-channel\/\">Lemaire Channel<\/a>, Charlotte Bay and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-antarctica.com\/landmark\/gerlache-strait\/\">Gerlache Strait<\/a>, I arrived in the port city of\u00a0Punta Arenas\u00a0in southern Chile on Friday 7th December. I had been looking forward to doing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-antarctica.com\/trip-lifetime-air-cruise\/\">Trip of a Lifetime Air Cruise<\/a>\u00a0which would be a week cruising around the Peninsula on board the Ocean Nova, a Danish ice-strengthened vessel with capacity for 68 passengers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Nogueira.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Hotel Jose Nogueira\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Nogueira.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After checking into my room at the Rey Don Felipe, I joined everyone for a presentation about what the following week would bring including what to wear, Antarctica\u2019s visitor guidelines, Zodiac guidelines and the plan for flying to Antarctica. After trying on our Wellington boots, (specially designed for temperatures of -50 degrees) and freshening up, we dined at the nearby Hotel Jose Nogueira where we had a cocktail at the Shackelton Bar and a delicious 3-course meal before being told we wouldn\u2019t be able to fly out of Punta Arenas the next morning due to there being too much ice on the runway in King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands for the company\u2019s BAE 146-200 plane to land. 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