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Today’s plan was to land at Fortuna Bay home to another large king penguin colony, although not as large as the previous day’s hoard at St. Andrew’s Bay, and a sizeable fur seal population. In addition, for those interested, there was going to be an opportunity to hike across the island to Stromness Bay. The hike traced part of the route that Shackleton and his men took to reach help once they… Read More
I spent the morning on the movie set of “Happy Feet”. We landed at St. Andrews Bay, home to about 400,000 king penguins, numerous fur seals, and my favorite, a bunch of elephant seals. The density of animals was overwhelming visually, aurally and olfactorily. The staff deliberately chooses landing sites in areas that minimize the disturbance to the animals so our landing site was some distance away from the heart of the… Read More
After two days at sea we finally arrived in the early morning at South Georgia. The next four days were targeted at visiting the incredibly dense wildlife that calls the island home. According to some of my fellow passengers South Georgia is the “Serengetti of the Antarctic” and it is one of the main reasons that this particular cruise is so popular; many other Antarctic cruises go straight to the peninsula completely… Read More
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