Had our first actual landing on South Georgia today. Landed at Fontura Bay, home of a large King Penguin colony. An amazing sight as we walked right up to the colony, picking our way between the fur seals and hoping they would behave. Apparently when they charge you need to stand your ground and clap if you don’t want to be bitten. There was an endless parade of penguins making their way to and from the sea, and in the centre of the colony vast huddles of chicks, shivering in the cold and wet waiting for the return of their parents. From the colony we traced the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton on the last part of his walk across the island. We just climbed over the last ridge into Stromness bay. Shackleton had already walked for 36 hours across the island after several weeks in a rowing boat at sea and 18 months frozen in the ice pack when he did the trek. Some fantastic views over the glaciers and bays as we came down. Stromness has an old Whaling station stations at the bay. It’s rusting and falling apart now, but it gives you a sense of what the place must have been like in the height of the whaling years. After lunch we travelled round to Grytviken - South Georgia town with a population of 25 it is the capital of the islands and the seat of government. The old whaling station has been preserved here and the part of it turned into a museum. It’s very interesting, well worth a visit if you are passing by. Shackleton is buried in the Whalers churchyead and many sailors pay their respects at the graveyard. In the evening we had a barbeque on the ship with some of the locals. The sun came out and it was a glorious setting.