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  • Re: 2021 Tauck Antarctica expedition Dec 5-20

    Narwhals spend their entire lives in the Arctic and don't migrate (Wikipedia), so unlikely to see any in the Antarctic.
  • Re: Satellite phone on Antarctica trip?

    All, We used AT&T WiFi calling throughout our recent expedition on L'Austral without any problems. Including (probable) high demand times like when we all found out we had to fill in another…
  • Re: Antarctica

    Sorry to have gone dark, but in the Drake Passage (actually less rough than earlier parts of our expedition), the Tauck Forum decided I had signed out and every attempt to sign in was redirected to t…
  • Re: Antarctica

    Update: totally socked in during the eclipse. Certainly saw the lights go out and then back on. Nothing like that in less than total eclipse. But the weather has been bad with winds up to (at least) …
  • Re: Antarctica

    We've been to Antarctica before so we're not bummed out (too much). A significant percentage of those on-board view this expedition as viewing a solar eclipse plus Antarctica. One couple we…