We took a short tender ride to the tiny port of Puerto Chacabuco. We were greeted by some very colorful and enthusiastic young dancers. It is a small village and pretty much just a starting point for excursions into some of the most beautiful scenery. Our guide for the day was just finishing up his last year of law school… View Post
It was a very cloudy day but everyone was happy because the ship was out of the choppy ocean and into the fjords of Chile. Our destination for the day was the Amalia Glacier. Yes, the glacier was actually blue. This is caused by oxygen being trapped in each layer of ice. We were also surrounded by floating ice. Our… View Post
We arrived in Punta Arenas on a rainy day. It’s a town on the shores of the Straight of Magellan and is almost at the very end of the South American continent. It’s a colorful, usually cold and always windy. Many international visitors arrive here to sail on Antarctic expeditions. We were so far south that the sun didn’t set… View Post
Rounding the Horn was once a daring battle of man against the ocean. When we sailed around Cape Horn, the sea was rough and the winds were strong. This ship was too close to the rocky shore and the Chilean pilots that were on our ship were all a buzz trying to correct its course. The waves made the ship… View Post
Ushuaia is the southernmost city in the world. It’s perched on a steep hill below the Martial Glacier and south of the Beagle Channel. I can see why its a town that attracts tourist interested in fishing, hiking and the great outdoors. We walk off the ship and got a private guide to take us to Tierra Del Fuego National… View Post
