Thursday, January 20, 2011 Stephen gave a well attended and well received presentation about his 2009 Mt Everest Expedition in the morning. Around noon we arrived at Cape Horn and the expedition team decided that the weather was favorable to…
Saturday, January 18, 2011 That morning we went ashore to Port Lockroy, a little bit of UK in Antarctica. In 1944 the British established ‘Base A’, first as a military base,; after WWII it was continued in a civilian capacity…
Friday, January 17, 2011 The Penola Strait was our scenic backdrop early in the morning. We anchored in Port Charcot off Booth Island around 9am and at 10:30am it was White Group’s slot to go ashore. We landed straight on…
Thursday, January 16, 2011 This morning we were anchored in Marguerite Bay and went ashore to Bongrain Point, Porquoi Pas Island. Here we saw Adélie Penguins and their chicks. The small colony was about a 15 minute walk from the…
Wednesday, January 15th, 2011 Around 10am this morning we crossed the Antarctic Circle at 66° 33′ 44”. We had good and steady internet so I was able to catch up on the blogs and photos about South Georgia. At 13:30…
Tuesday, January 14th, 2011 Mid-morning while on the bridge we spotted a humpback whale and her calf. They played along side the ship for a while before diving down. TW sailed on through The Gerlach Channel and the views were…
Finally some time and favorable seas for blogging! Currently sailing from Elephant Island towards the Antarctic Peninsula. Our Captain just adjusted course to try and avoid a heavy weather system to the south. The ‘at sea’ days that we were going…
Thursday, January 13, 2011 This morning we arrived at and anchored off Point Wild, Elephant Island. We had now also arrived in the Antarctic. The weather at Point Wild was nice so out came the zodiacs and off cruising around…
Monday, January 10th We sailed overnight and anchored at Prion Island at 7:30am. Prion Island is a tiny island and prime real estate for the Wandering Albatross, the largest flying bird, because the winds there are very favorable for them…
Sunday, 9th January TW left Grytviken at 4am and anchored in Fortuna Bay from 7am. WG’s zodiac departure was at 8:10am so off to the beach we went. What a morning it turned out to be again! Gorgeous weather again!…
Saturday, January 8th That morning we woke up to our captain parking TW in Hercules Bay. And what a job he did! We felt like we could almost touch the rocks; jokes were told about being parked just about on…
Friday, January 7th As mentioned the weather took a turn for the worse earlier that day in St Andrews Bay, so we left towards better weather in Gold Harbour. When we arrived there it was stunningly sunny so zodiac landings…
Friday, January 7th Yesterday we sailed passed a rock formation called ‘Shag Rocks’, which signaled our official arrival in South Georgia. Quite a remarkable little rock formation if you think about it: they are not very big at all and…
Friday, January 3rd to Monday, January 6th Our lovely luxurious ship The World (TW) sailed from Ushuaia during dinner on January 3rd. We were on the Beagle Channel until about midnight when we hit the open seas and the rolling…
Well, here we are, on board of The World, probably the most luxurious way possible to sail to Antarctica!!! We leave port in about 3 hours. First stop: South Georgia (UK). Penguins here we come 🙂 On December 31st we…
