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 […]
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 […]
Early morning landing at Salisbury Plain on South Georgia Island. Salisbury Plain is the second largest King Penguin colony on the island. In complete contrast to St Andrew’s, the Plain is free of snow, and is dominated […]
St Andrews Bay is one of the largest (150,000 pairs of King Penguins) and one of the most scenic landings in South Georgia. It can also be one of the hardest given it is on […]
We arrive at Fortuna Bay early in the morning – around 7.30am, after a night where the starboard side port hole covers were deployed due to the size of the waves crashing on the windows. […]
I could hear the waves hitting the porthole of my cabin during the night, and in the morning the seas are still heavy as we approach Shag Rocks, with a strong wind hitting the NG […]
