On Sunday we had an early morning start to check rat boxes yet again at Greene followed by Maiviken before the cruise ship carrying the rat eradication team pulled in at midday. From midday on we were busy unloading all the cargo for the team.

The two helicopters were flown off the ship over to Grytviken. The base is now busy with lots of people including a TV crew from Germany here to film the rat eradication.

We were all invited aboard the ship for a delicous BBQ dinner and as we were eating I heard Alaska Eagle call in. I couldn’t believe it when I saw her heading for the wharf as it is a boat from Orange Coast Collage which is the sailing school that owned Pyewacket when I raced aboard her in Southern California. Brad Avery was aboard who I had sailed with several times and 10 other people many from the Bay Area. The wharf looked like we were having a regatta with 4 yachts tied up – a French doublehanded boat, a single handed Israeli, Wanderer III with Theis and Kicki and the Americans on the S&S 65.