January 2016
Another busy month here and quite an unusual one as well. We had my first sighting of whales in the bay, three or four humpbacks we think. They were too far away to get a decent photograph unfortunately but maybe it’s a sign of things to come.
The lone reindeer that was spotted on the Busen Peninsula last month was shot in the middle of the month after we took a couple of boats round to Husvik (one of the old whaling stations) to drop Simon (Government Officer – also ex army officer) and Jen (Government Environmental Officer) to shoot him. He was a very healthy young male whose meat is now in our freezers.
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More info on the whale crosses please Matthew. As usual your pics are informative and the scenery is well captured. Wouldn’t have ever known about “the world”. What a way to be in this life. Fascinating.
Hi Marlene, I’ll see what I can do. I realised after your comment I haven’t had a pic of Shackleton’s grave in the blog before, So I might do something on that and explain a bit about the other graveyards around South Georgia. Or was it specifically about Ocean harbour graves? Glad you enjoy the blog!