We have four days at sea on Le Lyrial to Cape Town during this South Atlantic crossing, with a favourable weather forecast, which will be a vast improvement on the 2012 crossing. Monday March 19, […]
Le Lyrial arrives at Gough Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, around 9:30am, to an island shrouded in grey mist. Only the very edge of this large island is faintly visible. The swell […]
Friday March 16, 2018 We arrive at Nightingale Island in bright, sunny conditions, and a heavy swell that puts paid to a landing or zodiac cruise. Given that we haven’t picked up a local guide, […]
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 […]
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 […]
