to it. Our vessel, the RRS James Clark Ross( often abbreviated to the JCR) is sitting alongside a jetty in Port Stanley, alongside a Faeroese krill ship. Apart from ourselves, the Hamburg and the krill ship, there are no other big ships, the only other one being a wreck about a quarter of a mile away.
Sea wreck @ Jeremy Young
We’ ve already seen some wildlife! A group of us went out to a nearby penguin colony yesterday evening and saw gentoo and magellanic penguins, some on the beach, some in burrows. At a beach about a mile away you can sit on the white sands and watch dark grey albatrosses( at least according to a very tentative identification from a non-bird-watcher – they were certainly large birds with larger wingspans than any in the UK!) skimming across the bay and overhead. Magical.
Penguins @ Jeremy Young
Tomorrow we will get underway. Tides are not suitable in the morning so we plan to depart at 1pm. The Southern Ocean awaits …
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