After three busy days in South Georgia, the Silver Endeavour sailed for Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands, off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Elephant Island is where Ernest Shackleton’s crew was stranded on a bleak and inhospitable small beach while their captain and five others made a treacherous 17-day, 800-mile journey across…
Passage from Baltimore to Washington DC — Leg 2: Live Fire Exercises, Crab Traps and Toilet Repairs
Friday, Sep. 19 — We again wanted to get an early start on our passage, so we got up at 0530. Much to our dismay, the mid-stateroom toilet was broken. Unfortunately, there was no time to worry about it this … Continue reading →
Passage from Baltimore to Washington DC — Leg 1
Thursday, September 18, 2025 — Eric has been worried about the transit that we we’re about to make to DC. One of his concerns was speed: we were going to be going upriver against the current. To help maximize speed, … Continue reading →
Seeing Jeff Merrill in Baltimore, Maryland
Sunrise on Sunday, September 14 Sunday through Tuesday were quiet days overall. We’d intended to make a three-day trip to Washington DC on Monday, so we spent Sunday getting Kosmos ready for sea. We also went to Safeway to stock … Continue reading →
The Walters Museum in Baltimore, Maryland – Part 2
continued… The third room on the third floor of the Charles building was similar to the first two that we’d already seen: very large, spacious rooms filled with large paintings and some other types of art. There were also exhibits … Continue reading →
The Walters Museum in Baltimore, Maryland – Part 1
Saturday, September 13 — We’d planned to go to The Walters Museum and Peabody Library this afternoon. Keith was opposed to going to yet another museum, but Christi and Eric managed to talk him into going because Walters had a … Continue reading →
More Exhibits at The National Aquarium in Baltimore, the Walk to Fell’s Point and Dinner at Verde
Continued… As we’d noticed the day we’d visited the Historic Ships, the aquarium was housed in two separate buildings attached by a sky bridge. We wandered over to the skybridge to see what was in the other building. Here were … Continue reading →
The Falklands, South Georgia, and Antarctica Part II
Departing the Falklands, we traveled 900nm over three nights to reach our first stop in South Georgia at Elsehul. Here we toured the area by tender, sighting a large rockhopper penguin rookery perched on the cliffs, and hundreds of baby and adult seals. Among them was a relatively rare blonde Leucistic fur seal. Not quite…
The Falklands, South Georgia, and Antarctica
The island of South Georgia lies about 870 miles off the Antarctic Peninsula and supports the largest King Penguin population in the world, exceeding a million during the breeding season. It also contains the grave of British explorer Ernest Shackleton, who in 1916 famously saved his entire crew after their ship, the Endurance, was trapped in…
The Black Reef Exhibit at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland
continued… Looking down at the main pool as we climbed higher. There weren’t many exhibits where you could touch the creatures, but there were a few. We believe this was an Atlantic horseshoe crab. These moon jellyfish were common in … Continue reading →
