From Cape to Cape on the Explorer.

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The last of Rojaan's pics of this fjord.

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Spectacular photos! Thank you!

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So I start off with penguins swimming past and then sunrise.

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So the last of Drygalski fjord-

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Spectacular! Does all the beauty get overwhelming?

 

 

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[Fletcher]

I'm going there in a month or two. I'm worried it will all look a bit samey.

 

Drron - I think your cruise was going to Tristan but never made it . . . . ?

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Drron - I think your cruise was going to Tristan but never made it . . . . ?

 

Yes that's right ! Ron was so disappointed as he collected stamps from there as a child ! :(

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Yes that's right ! Ron was so disappointed as he collected stamps from there as a child ! :(

 

This happens a lot in the South Atlantic. Our cruise made several successful landings on Tristan but never made it to South Georgia!

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This happens a lot in the South Atlantic. Our cruise made several successful landings on Tristan but never made it to South Georgia!

 

Ooooooh, I didn't want to read that! South Georgia is THE reason I've booked the 'same' cruise in 2019.

 

I know weather is always a gamble and can't be controlled. I expected there may be landings cancelled... but never really considered we might 'miss' SG completely!

 

Fingers crossed.

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The Quark who were to visit South Georgia in the 4 days before our sailing from the Falklands didn't get a landing in South Georgia and instead returned to the Falklands.

So that is the problem with Expedition cruising.

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The only reason I was a little upset at missing the landings was because one was to see the chinstrap penguin which would make the 18th specie of 19 for penguins.I needn't have worried.They swam right by the ship-

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So we are now on the way to cruise Cumberland bay to see...well glaciers.On the way we get a glimpse of one of the landing sites.

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This photo is of Harker glacier.Many of South Georgia's glaciers are retreating.This one however has been stable since the 1970s and has advanced since photographed by Frank Hurley in 1914.

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And the reason we are here-the Neumeyer glacier.approx 2.8Km across the face-

 

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We saw a lot of calving but difficult to have the camera in the right spot-

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A zodiac cruise of the glacier was organised.As the Expedition staff were waiting to load they were being watched-

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A leopard seal who then delighted in playing hide and seek with the zodiacs-

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