Annie communed with the elephant seal weaners near the landing beach, while I walked across to the wreck of the Bayard. The rusting hull was glowing in the sunlight and it, together with its reflection in the water, made a beautiful red backdrop. I found a comfortable rock on which to rest, and spent several happy hours photographing birds and seals as they flew and swam past.
"The
Bayard was a three masted, 67 metre long, 1,028 ton, sailing ship built by T. Vernon and Son, Liverpool for the Hall Line in 1864. In 6 May 1885,
Bayard hit an iceberg,while on a voyage from Marseilles to St. Pierre. The ship lost her stern, bowsprit, jib-boom, foremast, topgallantmast and yard, but reached her destination on 23 May, leaking badly.She was later used as a coaling ship for the whaling station in South Georgia.
Bayard lost her mooring at the coaling pier in Ocean Harbour during a severe gale on 6 June 1911 and ran aground on the rocks on the southern side of the bay, where she rests there today, as a breeding site for blue-eyed shags." [
Wikipedia]
updated 12/11/2017