Happy Birthday Sweet 16

Today was my youngest (and most favouritest) daughter's 16th birthday.  We went out to the Heart & Soul cafe in Dunrobin for breakfast. On the way home we stopped in a large parking lot and she had her first go at driving the car.

Equipment for Antarctica

Exactly 4 weeks today I will be boarding the Silver Explorer ready to sail the Drake Passage to Antarctica.  Silversea sent me a packing list filled with all sorts of "necessary" items, like thermal underwear, thick fleeces, etc.  Then I found out it is only going to be about 0 degrees on the coast of Antarctica in February (that's high Summer down at the South Pole).  I manage in Ottawa in much colder weather than that without thermal underwear!


Anyhow, some equipment is a must.  Nordic walking poles - for when I'm trekking across the ice during our landing excursions, waterproof binoculars, waterproof packs for keeping stuff in - including my sea sickness medication for the Drake Passage (I'm not generally sea sick, so touch wood I will not need it).  I even took the photo of this stuff with my nice new waterproof camera....