Well as you can probably see from our position map we are on our way to South Georgia. We departed Stanley at 13:30 local time on Monday 01 November. The first 24 hours were calm and misty with a light (10 knots) northerly breeze but now we only have around 5 knots of breeze with the high cloud starting to break and the sun shining. We are motoring at around 6 knots so it's not fast but as a bonus it is smooth. Even with the smooth conditions a couple of people have not been feeling 100% but I am sure they will all recover quickly in these conditions.

We are now starting to see more birds, all the usual suspects; black browed, wandering and royal albatross ( I still find it very difficult to distinguish between the latter two), giant petrels, cape petrels, a few prions, and some little wilson's petrels. Some hourglass dolphins joined us for an hour or so this morning too.

Our big sister ship 'Pelagic Australis' is on her way back from South Georgia at the moment and I expect we'll cross sometime tomorrow, but it's very unlikely that we'll see them in this vast ocean.