ePostcard #58: Whale Tears (South Georgia)

ePostcard #58: Whale Tears (South Georgia)

ePostcard #58: Whale Tears (South Georgia)  The total harvest of marine mammals around South Georgia represents a slaughter which has never been matched around the world. The whaling stations built by the Norwegian and British whaling industry were large-scale...
ePostcard #57: Whaling Rust

ePostcard #57: Whaling Rust

ePostcard #57: Whaling Rust When you first visit Grytviken you are, quite simply, stunned into silence. In November of 1904 the Norwegian, C. A. Larsen, with experience whaling in Arctic waters, established the first whaling enterprise on South Georgia at Grytviken....
ePostcard #55: Leopards! (South Georgia)

ePostcard #55: Leopards! (South Georgia)

ePostcard #55: Leopards! (South Georgia) Spotting this young leopard seal asleep on the beach was a surprise, the cold gleam of the South Georgia sun turning its fur to burnished silver. Despite my efforts to quietly find a place to sit down and simply watch, I...