Last night’s camp on the beach was brilliant. The wind dropped during the night and it was calm in the morning too. A great sleep in our own bed. As Jen said yesterday, today our destination is Puerto Natales. We are going to stay in Chile to visit the scenic…
By Jen Disembarkation We were up before 07.00 as we had to vacate our state room by 08.00. Leaving our luggage at reception, we went and had breakfast. Tomorrow we will be back to porridge! After saying goodbye to the crew we walked down the gangway, along the pier and…
The final sailing day. It was another early rise for us. We were informed at last night’s briefing, that we would be passing Cape Horn at approximately 7am. The alarm went off and neither of us had had much sleep, but you don’t get too many opportunities to pass Cape…
(By Jen) Crossing the Drake passage As Dennis mentioned yesterday, the weather for our crossing of the Drake Passage was predicted to be quite rough. We actually left the South Shetland Islands early in the afternoon to avoid the incoming bad weather. Overnight it was bumpy, but we survived. The…
So, It’s Christmas Day…Merry Christmas everyone. It was approx midnight when we got to bed last night. With the little wifi we could get, we were trying to update the blog and send Christmas messages. I think I mentioned in an earlier blog, that we were paying US$25 to get…
Catching up with and sorting out our blog hasn’t been easy. In the process we have mixed ourselves up as to who should have been writing on which day. Never mind, everyday has been covered. Zodiac Cruise We were very lucky to have 3 sunny and relatively mild days. Today…
Photos to follow Awake at 3.05am wondering if the alarm will go off at 6.30am! No sleep till it does. I don’t think we have had a decent full night’s sleep since we boarded. Anyway, at 6.30am the phone lit up, but no audible alarm. It seems the “don’t disturb”…
(By Jen) This morning we are at Damoy Point; another stunning location. Once again we haven’t been picked for snow shoeing. Kayaking didn’t happen yesterday afternoon, because of the choppy water, so that group took today’s spot, so kayaking wasn’t an opportunity either. After breakfast we were off in the…
On waking this morning at 6.30am the scene outside the window was surreal. It was as if we were in an icefield, Our destination Mudge Passage. A marine passage that took us into a bay, with the objective of exploring the ice flows for marine life. Seals, whales etc. It’s…
By Jen :- We have been travelling south all night and our destination is Detaille Island, where we are due to arrive at around 1400. Detaille Island is a small island at the end of the Arrowsmith Peninsula in Graham Land. From 1956 to 1959 is was home to “Base…