Wendy Malan

Wendy trained as a classical ballet dancer and teacher at the University of Cape Town. After dancing professionally for ten years, she lectured in the dance department of the same university before setting out on her own. She has run her own successful exercise studio and produced and choreographed several ballets. Together with her oceanographer husband she has taken part in research cruises off the West Coast of Southern Africa. 

Her first visit to the Antarctic was in 2003, aboard the SA Agulhas, supervising a group of scholars who accompanied the vessel on a relief cruise to Queen Maud Land. Since then she has worked on small expedition cruise ships all over the world including the Antarctic, North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Iceland, the Faroes, the Hebrides, Ireland, the Indian Ocean Islands, Japan, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. She started as a Naturalist/Zodiac Diver and then moved on to Assistant Cruise Director, Assistant Expedition Leader, occasionally Expedition Leader and more frequently Cruise Manager. She resides in the beautiful coastal village of Hout Bay just outside of Cape Town.