We have now left the Tristan da Cunha island group on the National Geographic Explorer. Our next destination is the end of the expedition – in Cape Town, South Africa. This will be the first […]
The weather today is even better than yesterday – the swell has eased and as we head to Nightingale Island, we have high hopes that we will be able to land, and hike up onto […]
We are greeted with close to perfect weather at Tristan da Cunha; the day dawns bright and sunny over this small settlement in the middle of the southern Atlantic. The harbour at Tristan is best described […]
Despite the National Geographic Explorer’s stabilisers, crossing the Antarctic Convergence in the Southern Ocean involves a lot of pitching and rolling. The rolling from side to side isn’t so bad – the headlong pitches into the […]
Early morning landing at Salisbury Plain on South Georgia Island. Salisbury Plain is the second largest King Penguin colony on the island. In complete contrast to St Andrew’s, the Plain is free of snow, and is dominated […]
St Andrews Bay is one of the largest (150,000 pairs of King Penguins) and one of the most scenic landings in South Georgia. It can also be one of the hardest given it is on […]
