Jan 2006 we were anchored in Paradise Bay on Explorer II charted by then Radisson - it was 52 degees and sunny! The on-deck BBQ was that day - PERFECT!


What wasn't perfect was when we landed at Neko harbor off Paradise Bay some of us climbed "Mt. Neko" (really an ice hill) but had to slide down.

Part way down I remembered I had a hip replacement a year earlier and probably shouldn't have been doing that.

(After the operation surgeon told me I couldn't ski - and I didn't know he had seen me.)

Turned out titanium hip was OK and still is. Now the only "pain" is going through airport security.