Friday, January 7th
As mentioned the weather took a turn for the worse earlier that day in St Andrews Bay, so we left towards better weather in Gold Harbour.
When we arrived there it was stunningly sunny so zodiac landings were organized.
WG landed on the beach around 16:15 between the elephant seals, much less ‘aggressive’ than the fur seals.
Here we saw lots of King Penguins again, many of them sitting on their egg. In between them ran some quicker moving Gentoo Penguins, quite funny to watch at times.
The crew of TW are just amazing. They are the ones waiting for us at the landing site, in the water (in the appropriate gear, but still..), to pull the zodiacs as far up the beach as possible before they help us get out. When we get back to TW after our adventures, they take off our boots (to avoid getting the whole ship dirty, but still..) and a few hours those same boots magically turn up at our apartment door cleaned and dried! Next we see the crew doing their usual jobs on board. Truly great groups of people!
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