Atlantic Odyssey - At sea to Gough Island - 10th April

April 10th

Today we are 1,910 nautical miles away from a continental landmass. Fingers crossed there isn't a medical emergency!

Antarctic Prion

Our first Spectacled Petrel, after that one it just got better

Spectacled Petrel

Spectacled Petrel and Light Mantled Sooty Albatross

Atlantic Petrel

Juvenile Grey-headed Albatross

Gough Storm Petrel

Sooty Albatross

Sooty Albatross pair in synchronised flight

Grey Petrel

Snowy Albatross

Snowy Albatross (2nd cycle female - I think!)

Atlantic Odyssey - At sea to Gough Island - 9th April

April 9th

A windy day with some reduced visibility with rain and mist. Heading NE.

Grey-headed Albatross juvenile

Gough Storm-Petrel

Never that close and typically drifting high a superb Kerguelen Petrel

Great-winged Petrel

Atlantic Odyssey - At sea to Gough Island - 8th April

8th April 2026

We were now scheduled to be at sea until the 12th April heading towards the Tristan Da Cunha island group with our first stop being Gough Island. The heading of the ship was still  being expertly steered to avoid the worst of the weather system that was also tracking in the direction we were headed.

On the morning of the 8th April we were 125 nautical miles north-east from South Georgia and had maintained an average speed of 9.9 knots.

Likely South Georgia Diving Petrel

Blue Petrel

Light-mantled Sooty Albatross

Grey Petrel

Grey-headed Albatross

Wilson's Petrel

If only I'd been side on...

Hourglass Dolphin

Brown Skua (Subantarctic Skua) Stercorarius antarcticus lonnbergi

Still plenty of icebergs

Atlantic Odyssey - Coopers Island and Drygalski Fjiord

7th April 2026

Heading in to Drygalski Fjiord with penguin rookeries of Chinstrap, Macaroni and Gentoo. A colony of Snow Petrels occur within the Fjiord which is unusual given it's distance from the Antarctic Peninsula. We managed to get great views of a pod of Orca's including a cute small calf. It was sad to say goodbye to South Georgia.

Macaroni Penguin rookery

Southern Giant Petrel

Northern Giant Petrel

Pintado Petrel

Patterns in the ice

Looking for Orca in the Fjiord

Orca mother and calf

Snow Petrel

The head of the Drygalski Fjiord

A small section of the Chinstrap Penguin rookery

Chinstrap Penguin porpoising 

Coopers Island

Leaving South Georgia