RWSE Day 6: Mid-Day Recap

Since we have a second landing today — scheduled for this afternoon — EL Sara moved the daily recap up … to immediately after lunch.

Looks like there is a weather system moving in over SGI. That’s the bad news. But there is good news … the area where we will be operating tomorrow will still be in the clear 🤞🏻.

An early recap meant that we also got advance notice of tomorrow’s landing site — Gold Harbour. Mui and I did a landing there in 2007 and it was one of our favorites. We are looking forward to re-visiting the penguins and other critters at Gold Harbour … and are interested to see how the glaciers and colonies compare to what we saw 18 years ago.

Expedition team members followed up with their tidbits.

Jens told us the story of the Santa Fe, an Argentinian submarine that was used during the Falklands War … how the captain, Felix Artuso, was killed by the Brits who thought he was scuttling the boat, when he was in fact trying to save it … how Artuso was buried at the Grytviken cemetery with full military honors.

Clara then gave a brief presentation about the algae forests that can grow up to 18” per day and reach heights of 150 feet.

Oh, by the way, there is an Oceanwide Expeditions tradition when a vessel receives a 100% rating for biosecurity measures in SGI. Can you say happy hour and free drinks? The celebration is being postponed until tomorrow, however, since we will be ashore, communing with penguins today.

Time to go put our layers on and prepare for another landing.Read more