At Sea

It takes two days to sail from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia Island. Look that up on Google Maps -- we are much farther east and approaching the same longitude as Great Britain. We have also crossed south and left the Southern Atlantic Ocean and have entered the Southern Ocean. This is a real ocean, on par with the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic and Indian. It is defined as the point where the circulating water moves east -- actually in a circle around Antarctica, rather than north-south. It is much colder. The Falklands lie in the Southern Atlantic while South Georgia Island is in the Southern Ocean.

We will spend two full days landing at South Georgia. This is where we will see elephant seals, fur seals, and of course the most famous penguins of all, the King penguins. I'm saving my bandwidth to post those photos in a couple of days.

Then it's two more days at sea, heading southwest past the South Orkney Islands over to Elephnt Island and then nearly a full week exploring the Antarctiic peninsula!

I'm putting a map in here but note that it's not to scale. These islands are much farther apart.

 

 

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