“Keep your fingers crossed so the engine doesn’t quit again. We are on our third oil pump, all three jerry rigged by Jerome and Leiv. The crossing from the Falklands to the Antarctic Peninsula took 3 and a half days. We are already double that.”
Homer author and adventurer Shelley Gill is six days into her return voyage from Antarctica to the Falkland Islands. Check out musings and photos about the mysterious albatross on her blog.
You can photograph albatrosses gliding around our Golden Fleece. Yeah, the big ocean birds with wings like huge gliders, glistening white chests, and large pinkish bills with prominent nostrils which ooze salt sludge extracted from the seawater they drink.