Catch the Total Solar Eclipse
Peregrine has announced that their 2008-09 Polar program includes an exciting voyage to witness the total solar eclipse on August 1, 2008, from the beautiful and remote Canadian High Arctic
But with Arctic bookings already at double last year’s levels, it’s a case of book now, or miss the boat.
After a charter flight from Ottawa to the voyage departure point of Iqaluit on Baffin Island, passengers will board the ‘Peregrine Mariner’ for the 12-night “Baffin Island and Greenland Explorer”. Carrying a maximum of just 110 passengers, the ice-strengthened, state-of-the-art ‘Peregrine Mariner’ cruises in view of gigantic icebergs and glaciers – including the fastest-moving glacier on earth, Jakobshavn Glacier, which moves at about 15 to 25 metres a day.
The Arctic is also home to a myriad of wildlife, including whales, polar bears, seabirds, and the rare narwhal (one of only two species of white whale, with a ‘horn’ like a unicorn).
On the morning of August 1, 2008, the ship will be positioned as close as possible to the ‘path of totality’ so passengers can witness the surreal day-into-night-into-day experience of the total solar eclipse.
Prices for the “Baffin Island and Greenland Explorer” voyage start at $7,775 per person twin share, including an experienced expedition leader and crew, zodiac excursions, meals, on-board presentations and education program, and port taxes. The voyage departs Iqaluit, Baffin Island on July 22, 2008 and finishes in Resolute.
On the opposite end of the earth, Peregrine’s range of Antarctic voyages includes the 13-night “Antarctic Circle Quest”. Now one night longer than in past years, this voyage allows passengers to travel further and deeper into the Antarctic Peninsula than ever before.
Antarctica’s abundance of wildlife includes massive penguin rookeries, with penguins numbering in the hundreds of thousands; humpback whales; five different seal species and a wide variety of seabirds. Reaching the Antarctic Peninsula, Peregrine’s vessel will reach as far south as the weather and ice conditions will allow, hopefully via the spectacular Lemaire Channel, with its sheer walls rising up on both sides of the channel’s glassy waters.
The “Antarctic Circle Quest” departs Ushuaia, Argentina on December 15, 2008 and January 25, 2009. Prices start at $9,990 per person twin share, including the services of experienced expedition leaders and crew, the on-board education program, zodiac excursions, arrival transfers and all meals.
With the launch of its range of 2008-09 brochures, Peregrine offers clients a voluntary carbon offsetting option on the land component of all its tours, as well as the accompanying flights.
For further details and bookings contact your travel agent or Peregrine Adventures on 1300 854 500 or visit www.peregrineadventures.com
Report by The Mole
John Alwyn-Jones
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