Category Archives: South Georgia Island

Blog posts relating to South Georgia Island, the last true wilderness in the world.

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Stromness and Leith Whaling Stations, South Georgia

Stromness Whaling Station and Shackleton Valley Today’s plan for an early morning landing at Gold Harbour and a zodiac cruise at Cooper Bay was scuttled in favour of Stromness last night. The weather forecast of […]

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St Andrew’s Bay and Grytviken, South Georgia Island

St Andrew’s Bay Le Lyrial arrives at St Andrew’s Bay around 6am to dense wet fog. I’m in the last group scheduled to land, so hopefully it clears up in a couple of hours. A […]

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Salisbury Plain and Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Island

Salisbury Plain Our first landing at South Georgia is at Salisbury Plain, the site of a large King Penguin colony of 250,000 pairs. The forecast is for 8 degrees Celsius in the morning and 7 […]

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At Sea to South Georgia Island

March 7, 2018 We’re at sea today on Le Lyrial, heading to South Georgia Island. There are mandatory biosecurity checks to occupy the passengers during this day at sea. Boots are checked for cleanliness and […]

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Photobook – EPIC 2012

8 months after I’ve arrived home from Epic 2012, I’ve finally finished the photobook (click the hyperlink) from that trip…a whopping 200 A3 pages. Then again,  I did cover a lot of ground – Melbourne to […]

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Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

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 […]