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Monthly Archive for February, 2011

Cruise Day #10 – Cape Horn, Chile

Around 7am, we arrived at Isla Hornos, which is home to the famed Cabo de Hornos (Cape Horn). As the southernmost point in the Americas where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet, this (in)famous headland today evokes thoughts of adventure and romance from the Age of Sail. However, I doubt it was anything closely approaching […]

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Today was another beautiful day in Ushuaia, though slightly cooler (in the 50s) and a good deal windier than the prior day. Nonetheless, sunny and dry—given what is typical for Ushuaia—makes for a very nice day. We mostly wandered about the town. It has an interesting vibe… aside from the language of the signage on […]

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We awoke to blissfully smooth water and found ourselves cruising through the Beagle Channel toward Ushuaia. We docked around 9am. After having our morning coffee and feeding Emerson her breakfast, we departed the ship for a catamaran tour of the Beagle Channel. In all, we spent about two hours on the tour. The highlights included […]

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Well, we’re now sailing back through the Drake Passage. Seas are running ~15-20ft with winds in the 40-50 knot range. None of this is exceptional for this part of the world, but it’s certainly atypical of what one usually experiences on a Caribbean cruise. According to reports from the bridge, the visibility in Antarctica is […]

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Ugh. What a day. After a relatively peaceful night, I awoke and flung open the curtains to see my first glimpse of Antarctica… Fog! I went out on deck: more fog. Port side: fog. Starboard side: fog. Fog, fog, and more (you guessed it) fog. Roughly an hour after reaching Elephant Island, the wind had […]

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