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Welcome to the temporary site for timhearnwildlife.com.

I'll be posting a few shots here while working on the main site, which is currently under construction...

Timhearnwildlife has been a long term passion and project of mine which is now reaching fruition. It is (or strictly speaking, will be) a commercial resource for wildlife and natural history photography and writing.

Over the last 10 years, I've been fortunate enough to travel extensively to all 7 continents, taking photographs and notes, and the site will showcase the results.

Please feel free to browse....



Tuesday 21 September 2010

CROSSING THE DRAKE PASSAGE

This is the Drake Passage on a good day. At some points, the waves were cresting 70', and the wind was gusting force 8. And we weren't doing it in a 20' lifeboat (see Shackleton, below). This ship is the Explorer aka the Little Red Ship. She was the first true expedition cruiser, and I was privileged to travel aboard her twice, both times to Antarctica via the fearsome Drake Passage- arguably the roughest piece of sea in the world.

Sadly, six months after my last outing on the Little Red Ship, she finally succumbed to the perils of Antarctic travel and sank near the Falkland Islands having been torn open on a low lying bergy bit (small iceberg). All passengers were safely evacuated, but the Explorer, which I remember with huge fondness, is at the bottom of the ocean.

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