Our morning was spent making way to Elephant Island. Cold and dreary. The island is at the northernmost tip of the South Shetlands. The shape of the island looks a lot like an elephant’s head and many think that is where the name came from. Others attribute the name to the sightings of elephant seals by…
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It’s a little over a two-day sail on the Scotia Sea from South Georgia to Elephant Island in the South Shetland group. These are some seriously rough waters. The most famous sailing of these waters was in 1916 by Sir Ernest Shackleton and 5 others in a small lifeboat. They left Elephant Island off the…
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Our day starts at Gold Harbor, a small bay at the eastern end of South Georgia. Gold Harbor is so named because the sun’s rays make the rock faces yellow at sunrise and set. Its coastline consists of a large beach and moraine covered with tussock grass. Framing the beach are the hanging ice cliffs…
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The day starts at St. Andrews Bay, ab0ut 30 km south of Grytviken. The bay’s setting is gorgeous, stretching nearly 3 km with a dark sand beach, surrounded by glaciers, massive peaks and a tussock plain. The bay hosts the largest King penguin colony in existence with over 150,000 breeding pairs plus their chicks, adding…
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