After talking to several Lan Chile operators (who apparently were really located in Chile) I finally got one who spoke good English and after a bit of difficulty due to the fact that there is only one flight per week to the Falklands, booked plane tickets for the South Georgia trip this October. Four weeks on the boat, followed by two weeks in the Falklands, and preceded by one hundred and forty eight days of trying not to get too excited.
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?" — David Mitchell