Some short-cuts taken by the captain during the night mean that we arrive in Cape Town later than originally planned, but not as late as was being forecast yesterday. We pick up the pilot around […]
As the National Geographic Explorer heads towards Cape Town from Tristan da Cunha, the weather deteriorates and we experience heavy seas. We were incredibly lucky weather-wise to have been able to land at Tristan da […]
We have now left the Tristan da Cunha island group on the National Geographic Explorer. Our next destination is the end of the expedition – in Cape Town, South Africa. This will be the first […]
The weather today is even better than yesterday – the swell has eased and as we head to Nightingale Island, we have high hopes that we will be able to land, and hike up onto […]
We are greeted with close to perfect weather at Tristan da Cunha; the day dawns bright and sunny over this small settlement in the middle of the southern Atlantic. The harbour at Tristan is best described […]
Despite the National Geographic Explorer’s stabilisers, crossing the Antarctic Convergence in the Southern Ocean involves a lot of pitching and rolling. The rolling from side to side isn’t so bad – the headlong pitches into the […]
