Today we visited Fortuna Bay, a peaceful place filled with wonderful wildlife, where our guests had the opportunity to walk to the king penguin colony, which had about 20,000 birds. The fur seals here seemed very relaxed, and many seabirds soared over us and the penguins. In the afternoon those guests not on the Shackleton Hike enjoyed a scenic cruise to the whaling station of Stromness. Guests who went on the hike had the opportunity to follow almost directly in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley, and Tom Crean as they crossed the uncharted interior of South Georgia in 1916. While we did not exactly follow their route (ours was without the errors they made and without the waterfall descent) to the Stromness whaling station, it surely felt as if we were experiencing a living a piece of history. In the evening we cruised to Leith and Husvik whaling stations for a look from the ship.