Nov 05, 2018 - National Geographic Explorer
Last night we turned the bow of National Geographic Explorer toward the Falkland Islands, leaving South Georgia Island in our wake. We had the privilege of six glorious days on this remote island paradise. We stopped at many of the places that Sir Ernest Shackleton visited during his epic trip aboard the James Caird from Elephant Island in May 1916. We did a Zodiac tour at Cave Cove on Cape Rosa as well as a landing at Peggotty Bluff, where Shackleton,
All of us on board National Geographic Explorer fared so much better—all
A HUGE thank you to all the folks on board who make life so enjoyable! You made our expedition to South Georgia very civilized indeed!
Michael Nolan was born in Bitburg, Germany to an Air Force family stationed there. His first experience of the ocean came at age 12, when he learned to snorkel in the Italian Mediterranean. At age 17 he moved to Tucson, Arizona and became a PADI SCUBA instructor, before starting a SCUBA diving business that specialized in diving trips to the Sea of Cortez.