Wednesday, January 15th, 2011
Around 10am this morning we crossed the Antarctic Circle at 66° 33′ 44”.
We had good and steady internet so I was able to catch up on the blogs and photos about South Georgia. At 13:30 we anchored off Detaille Island.
We had our turn around 16:00 to go ashore. It’s a small island on which the British built a station hut ‘Base W’ in 1956. It was closed in a hurry in 1959. The re-supply ship picking the staff up at the end of the season couldn’t get through the ice and told them, if they wanted to get off, to pack up their sledges and dogs and get to the ship. They did and apparently never went back. We got to see the remarkably well preserved hut just 2 weeks before planned restoration works are scheduled to start.
Cruised around the icebergs with our favorite zodiac driver Rob Suisted, and only one other passenger Tim Jarvis. Good fun!
That evening we had dinner guests in the apartment: Rob McCallum, Rob Suisted and Rod Ledingham; a good and relaxed evening was had by all.
After dinner Stephen and I went to Deck 7 for another sunset cruise, this time through The Gullet.
We also spent time on the bridge and it was good to see that the captain (and ice-captain, on board specially for this trip) avoided hitting any floating ice with animals on it; they were constantly adjusting course.
Caroline.
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