South Georgia
Penguins in great landscape
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Explore South Georiga in early summer
We invite you to join us on a very special 15 days (14 nights) South Georgia photo tour in October / November 2023 or October 2024. WildPhoto Travel will be chartering the entire ship, M/V Polar Pioneer, for photographer only expeditions - 21.10-04.11 2023, 04.11-18.11 2023 and 12.10-26.10 2024. There will be a maximum of 53 guests, together with 5 guides. Get ready for an exciting photo expedition to South Georgia!
The main focus on our South Georgia photo expeditions will be penguins, seabirds, seals and landscapes. South Georgia is one of the hotspots for breeding King penguins, Gentoo penguins and Macaroni penguins, and some of the beaches are over-flooded with these birds. We will have early landings on the beaches to get the best light conditions, which you will miss on ordinary tourist trips. There are also breeding colonies of albatrosses on the islands.
The Elephant seals and Antarctic fur seals have entered the beaches in October, and we will have a lot of action and photo opportunities when these animals are fighting over the females and the best spots on the beach.
We will schedule longer stops than usual on a normal South Georgia photo tour when going ashore. We do this in order to provide participants enough time to get great photo opportunities. We use 5 zodiac boats to get ashore or when searching for the wildlife at sea.
With 8-9 full days around South Georgia, these expeditions are for nature photographers who want more quality time with the sub-antarctic wildlife and landscape.
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Itinerary South Georgia
Based on previous South Georgia photo tours in October/November we plan to use the travel route as illustrated on the map, but this may change due to ice, weather and other conditions.
DAY 1 - Departure from Port Stanley, the Falkland Islands.
DAY 2-3 - At sea, heading toward South Georgia.
DAY 4 - First landing in South Georgia.
DAY 5-12 - We are visiting some of the best areas for wildlife and landscape photography, such as Salisbury Plains, St. Andrews Bay, Gold Harbour, Cooper Bay, Drygalski fjord and other great places.
DAY 13-14 - At sea heading toward the Falkland islands.
DAY 15 - Return to Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Transfer to the airport.
Trip reports South Georgia
WildPhoto has organized photo expeditions to South Georgia in 2015 and 2018. You can read our trip report from 2015 below.
Available cabins for South Georgia expeditions
Below are available spots on WildPhoto expeditions to South Georgia. All prices are in USD $. Let us know if you can't find any spots available on your preferred date and we can place you on the waiting list and let you know if spots become available later.
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