And Somehow, She Persists

January 31, 2025

I’m a bit disturbed by how long it’s been since I’ve posted anything on The Greenest Blue blog. Photos have gone up on Instagram when I’ve felt inspired over the last two years, but I feel like for the most part, I have been in hibernation.

I’ll write more about that later. For now, I want to share this particularly special experience that is unfolding, right now. I’m on a ship in the Antarctic, specifically the Antarctic Sound on the northeast side of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, with a group of 120 women and non-binary people in STEMM. It’s facilitated by Homeward Bound. Read more here: it’s late, and this girl needs to get to bed.

But I wanted to start a log of our experiences each day, and I need to get caught up before time flashes by and I’m disembarking in Ushuaia in two weeks. Updates will be mostly through photos, as that is the energy level I’m working with currently.

Kinnes Cove

Home to a bustling Adelie penguin colony, with some Gentoos and a random Chinstrap or three thrown into the fray. We saw a sleepy, chunky Weddell seal hauled out on the shoreline, and a few lazy humpbacks cruised past our zodiacs on their way to redder pastures (because of krill, duh).

Please know: I will be writing more. I have so many thoughts and feelings about life and Antarctica and human existence that I could burst, and that is precisely why I have to shut my computer now. Thank you for being here. I will see you soon.