Aurora Australis is gone!!

She left late on Monday 14 November and it was so sad to see her go, all that is left now is a scar in the sea ice (and in a few weeks time even that will be gone too when the ice melts away). I had never been on a voyage quite like this one and had grown attached to our orange floating home. She is a very nice ship indeed - very comfortable, very functional and she has all one can ever ask for (including two small gyms) and the best gully in the Southern Ocean! The atmosphere was great all the way - the crew are fantastic with most of them old timers down here, loving Antarctica just as much as the rest of us do. The only danger on the ship was getting too fat from eating all that delicious food - we didn't get those famous Southern Ocean waves so only a few people got seasick and consequently the mess remained busy all the way through. We shall see Aurora again in March when she returns on V3 to pick up all the summerers.