October 29: at sea
We spent the full day today (and will again tomorrow) at sea moving from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia. The ocean has been very calm, which has enabled us to maintain a good speed (about15 knots) and made traversing the decks fairly easy. We spent a fair bit of time on deck or up in the bridge, scouting for sea birds and sea mammals. We were rewarded with wonderful sightings of fifteen species of sea birds, including black-browed, wandering,and royal albatross, cape petrel, northern and southern giant petrels, slender-billed prion, sooty and great shearwater, and swimming rock hopper penguins. We also saw hourglass dolphins. We were not able to capture images of all the birds we saw, but we did get some good ones.
We also heard presentations from the staff on the Falklands Conflict in 1982, the geology of this region, and other topics. After dinner we watched a movie about Shackleton’s ill- fated but heroic journey to Antarctica and South Georgia in the early 20th century.
Pictured below are a wandering a
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