The Return Passage
We had allowed ourselves a 12 day period to find a suitable stable weather window to make our 5 to 6 day return passage to Stanley but...
What a difference a day makes!
After two days of almost constant rain and zero visibility during our ski tour, we motored back to our anchorage in Prince Olav Harbour...
Leopard Seals
One of the big highlights of our time at South Georgia has been our numerous encounters with Leopard Seals. Not expecting there to be...
The Shackleton Crossing
Ernest Shakleton, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley made their legendary crossing of the South Georgia ice cap in May 1916, one month before...
Heading North
The weather on the southern end of the island is generally a magnitude more severe than further north, so with more gales forecast we...
South Georgia Update
Sitting inside the Antarctic convergence zone the island is swept by a constant series of low pressure systems that bring sleet and snow...
The Great Man
For anyone with a sense of adventure, the exploits of Sir Ernest Shackleton are legendary and our journey to Grytviken on South Georgia...
Winter Wonderland
We had timed our arrival hre in South Georgia almost a month earlier than is the norm in the hope that we would find better snow...
Grytviken
South Georgia was a major Whaling and Sealing base with the first sealing expedition carried out by the British as early as 1786. Seen...
South Georgia
140 miles long, battered by the ferocious winds of the South Atlantic and sitting inside the Antarctic convergence zone, South Georgia...
