Our crossing from the Falklands to South Georgia was pretty flat, arguably too flat for seabirds. We still managed some excellent seabirds and a mad half hour where everything happened at once contributed to a day with six species of Albatross. The downside of the flat crossing is that the storm arrives while we’re at South Georgia, which limits our opportunities to land on this beautiful island. We managed a couple yesterday, at Grytviken and Jason Harbour, where the fur seals were distinctly feisty, one young one being particularly reluctance to back off, leaving me in a stand off at about a foot for a minute.
Birds, wildlife and travel