This morning we visited Half Moon Island, home to a chinstrap colony. This island provided our first real chance to walk on ice even though there wasnt a lot around and what there was was covered in penguin guano! Judy (the poor lady who broke her foot on the very first landing) was able to be brought ashore, but unfortunately couldnt make the trek across the ice and scree to where the chinstraps were nesting. I walked around there and was pleased to see a Wedde...

The weather has finally turned against us. It was too windy to land at St Andrews Bay which has the biggest colony of Kings on South Georgia (hard to believe there could be more than there were at Salisbury Plain). When I woke up I could see them covering the beach. The end of a rainbow lit a small group at one end. It was magical. I was a little dissappointed when Julio made the announcement that it was too windy for us to land. I suppose 45 knots is a little ...