Antarctic month trip of a lifetime
When Albany resident Stuart Kendon’s wife suggested a holiday in France with their close friends, he decided he wanted to go somewhere cooler.
The wives of Kendon and his friend decided to make the trip, but their husbands had a different idea.
‘‘Ian [Armitage] and I decided we didn’t want to go. We’d been before and seen what they wanted to see. We decided we wanted to go to the Antarctic,’’ says Kendon.
‘‘I kept putting it off and putting it off, until Ian rang up and said he’d booked.’’
The pair left Bluff by boat on February 10 and spent one month travelling around the Antarctic.
Kendon says it’s too hard to choose one highlight.
‘‘I was really taken with the early explorers who’d been down there. I’d read all about their exploits and to see those huts was a highlight, but it’s also seeing the animals, being with good mates, getting a good sense of the history of the place,’’ says the Albany resident.
‘‘How do you select a highlight out of all of that?’’
The trip, organised by Heritage Expedition took the pair all through the subantarctic islands, over the Ross Sea and included a stay at Scott Base in Antarctica.
‘‘To me it was the trip of a lifetime,’’ says Kendon.
He shared his journey with Browns Bay Rotary on July 19.