Not all who wander are lost
After some rough days and nights at sea in the South Ocean, we were overjoyed to arrive and start docking at Stanley, the largest city, in the Falkland Islands around 730AM on Feb 21, 2022 – and for once we were actually up and on deck to see it. There wasn’t much to see though,…
Sailing the South Ocean on Feb 20 and 21, 2022 led to some really rough waves, and really, really rough nights without much sleep. We both slept fitfully in 5 minute segments between the rolling, knocking of waves, and noises from our cabin due to the movement. Thankfully though, and I’d say due to the…
Our final day in South Georgia, Feb 18, 2022, consisted of a a visit to Salisbury Plain and then Elsehul Bay to view the macaroni penguins. But even sweeter still than the adventure ahead, after many sleepless nights in South Georgia, and after switching cabins the day before we were finally able to achieve it:…
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…
