We continue our passage towards South Georgia. The air (and sea) temperature is noticeably cooler now that we are south of the Antarctic convergence/polar front. As of 21.30hrs local time we are around 30 NM to the west of Shag Rocks, the westernmost limit of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (see Wikipedia for more information). At 05.00hrs tomorrow we are recovering a buoy that has been recording whale vocalisations for several months near to Shag Rocks, as it is one of the places you are most likely to spot cetaceans (whales and dolphins) on this voyage, so at this point I plan to be awake for that...!
The plan (weather dependent) is to visit King Edward Point on Friday, stay overnight and arrive at Bird Island on Sunday. It will be nice to see some of the rest of South Georgia and to go for a walk around KEP. Grytviken whaling station (near to KEP) is the site of the grave of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer most famous for the Endurance expedition, who died at South Georgia in 1922.
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