Not all who wander are lost
After a great day in Grytviken, we were looking forward to the South Georgia Shackleton hike, and being in the footsteps of this intrepid explorer. Unfortunately, it was another restless night, as we watched the night before as the ship had inexplicably gone out to sea from South Georgia before turning around to come back…
Today (Feb 16, 2022) the itinerary consisted of another South Georgia wildlife landing to explore the native tussock grass as well as an abandoned whaling town, Grytviken. Unfortunately in the night we moved out into deeper water and started having a lot of the rolling seas again. CJ was immediately worried about feeling seasick again,…
On Feb 15, we woke up around 8AM and land ho – we had already stopped in Gold Harbour on South Georgia. It was wonderful to look out our window and see some green! We also contemplated Shackleton seeing it for the first time, and then finding ourselves once again amazed that he had to…
After Elephant Island, we spent the next two days at sea sailing to South Georgia continuing in the footsteps of Shackleton (Feb 13/14, 2022). On the first day we awoke, or more realistically just got out of bed, after a mostly sleepless night in rough seas sailing to South Georgia just in time for an…
Today (February 12, 2022) is an at sea heading to Elephant Island after just departing Antarctica on the MS Fram. At sea days are pretty slow save briefings and onboard educational opportunities, and unfortunately CJ spent most of the at sea days seasick and looking for distractions and moments of relief from the misery. Elephant…
After returning to the ship early after camping, we were ready for a lower key day of whale watching and resting. We started off with a nap, opting to skip breakfast. The first planned excursion time came sooner than we wanted. CJ decided to sleep and skip it, but I got up. The actual landing…
