Located 2600 km from Cape Town Bouvet Island seems to be one of the most isolated islands on the globe… Early wake-up and
run to the bridge. Here it is: lonely rock on the horizon covered by snow cap with some icebergs floating around. It is
sunny weather – we are lucky! At 10.30 am we droped anchor at Norsoya – opposite to the little plateau where Norvegians put
container used by their expeditions. After an hour all zodiacs (we have 5 of them) were on the water and we were sailing one
by one to the coast. Only three of them took a risk of landing on he narrow beach full of the fur seals. My zodiac – the
fourth – was crusing along the coast for about 40 minutes waiting for the opportunity to land. Sorry! The leader decided to
stop further landings due to the increasing wind. Those of you who have zodiac experience know that if the wind is against
it is much more difficult to go back from the shore then to land… They used long rope and another tug-zodiac to pull-off
wet explorers back to the open sea.
