Photo by Sam Crimmin

The team of Norwegian kayakers who arrived over two and half weeks ago on Pelagic from the Falklands successfully completed an unsupported circumnavigation of South Georgia. Yesterday morning after 20 days of paddling, (which has only been done on two other occasions) they came out of the low cloud and mist finishing at the beach next to the boatshed.

We greeted them by setting off flares and Jon had the sauna all warm and ready for them. The team, consisted of Simen Havig-Gjelseth, Sigrid Henjum, Tormod Austring, and Dag Marius Ammerud. After the sauna they got right to work washing and drying out all their equipment so the boatshed looked like a chinese laundry! In the evening they joined us in the bar for celebrations that went pretty late into the night.

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