Category: Antarctica to Zimbabwe

(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Breakfast in the room this morning. Swells were somewhere over 4 metres last night – bad enough that I was rolled side-to-side in my…

(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) We’re not due to depart from the ship until 8:30 am, but there’s a chance that timings might be moved up. So we’re up…

(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Up around 8:30 am this morning so that I can get an early start staring at Windy – erm, breakfast. (Conditions do look slightly…

(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) We’d planned to head to sleep immediately after last night’s dinner at La Dame, but it did not quite work out that way. Our…

(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Fun Fact – Did you know that when swells come in from multiple directions, they can combine to form even larger swells? So that…

(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) First sea day after a long stretch at South Georgia, and we are making the most of it – by making the least of…

(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Early morning for our final push. Jamie promises only to wake us if there is good news regarding the landing at Saint Andrew’s Bay,…

(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Another sleep-in morning for us, the last for a while. Zodiac group 1 is the first of the second cohort, which means that next…

We are due to depart around 9:30 am today. There are no restrictions on the numbers that can land at Grytviken, so our late departure is instead driven by the…

(Today’s Chronicle can be found here.) Up at 7:30 am, breakfast at La Terrazza and then back to the room to change and get ready. No messing around today –…