Many people ask us why we chose to do the return trip on this cruise, back to
Valparaiso, when most chose to do 12 days one way only. Usually, we have answered “because when we booked we didn’t know there was a 12 day cruise” and although that is true we are quickly discovering why we were meant to do this in both directions. It is so vastly different from the first leg. I have already told you about the very rough seas we experienced for 3 days; 3 days that the Captain informs us is the roughest he has seen in years. It has been followed by the 2 most beautiful days imaginable so we are hoping it stays with us. Again, the Captain informs us that our rounding of Cape Horn last night was the calmest of his career and so much so that he allowed the pilot to take us up a channel that even the Captain had never ventured on before because of how narrow it was. There is a peace beyond understanding as we glide along the Avenue of Glaciers tonight heading north to meet the Strait of Magellan with the sun shining brilliantly off the ice (too much of which is in the water just since last week). Today in Ushuaia, when we went to Tierra del Fuego National Park the locals were beside themselves with excitement as they said today was the kind they might see once a summer if they are lucky. The forecast was for 19 and sunny when their usual average is about 10 in the summer and lots of rain. The park itself was awesomely beautiful, truly. Enough to make you want to 'go native' as you will see from this picture. Don't we clean up good for formal night?? Unfortunately, it would be a lonely spot as we would be the only natives here. None survived the arrival of the missionaries.
We went to the end of the PanAmerican Highway that starts in Alaska. That was quite a kick. It is something like 15,000 km long and I was startled to hear that we are actually 3500 km from Buenos Aires now. Mother Nature put on another great show with the bluest of blues and whitest of whites and even a few bikinis ventured out on deck this afternoon. It was quite funny, though, to see them juxtaposed with the woman beside them in the wool hat and scarf. For myself, it was perfect t-shirt and capris weather for the daily walk on the promenade deck. Tomorrow we will be in Punta Arenas and I am very excited about walking with the penguins on Magdalena Island. More on that tomorrow………keep well and do not forget to take the time to smell the flowers, coffee, fresh air, each other and perform those random acts of kindness………lots of love, Sally xoxo
Many people ask us why we chose to do the return trip on this cruise, back to
Valparaiso, when most chose to do 12 days one way only. Usually, we have answered “because when we booked we didn’t know there was a 12 day cruise” and although that is true we are quickly discovering why we were meant to do this in both directions. It is so vastly different from the first leg. I have already told you about the very rough seas we experienced for 3 days; 3 days that the Captain informs us is the roughest he has seen in years. It has been followed by the 2 most beautiful days imaginable so we are hoping it stays with us. Again, the Captain informs us that our rounding of Cape Horn last night was the calmest of his career and so much so that he allowed the pilot to take us up a channel that even the Captain had never ventured on before because of how narrow it was. There is a peace beyond understanding as we glide along the Avenue of Glaciers tonight heading north to meet the Strait of Magellan with the sun shining brilliantly off the ice (too much of which is in the water just since last week). Today in Ushuaia, when we went to Tierra del Fuego National Park the locals were beside themselves with excitement as they said today was the kind they might see once a summer if they are lucky. The forecast was for 19 and sunny when their usual average is about 10 in the summer and lots of rain. The park itself was awesomely beautiful, truly. Enough to make you want to 'go native' as you will see from this picture. Don't we clean up good for formal night?? Unfortunately, it would be a lonely spot as we would be the only natives here. None survived the arrival of the missionaries.
We went to the end of the PanAmerican Highway that starts in Alaska. That was quite a kick. It is something like 15,000 km long and I was startled to hear that we are actually 3500 km from Buenos Aires now. Mother Nature put on another great show with the bluest of blues and whitest of whites and even a few bikinis ventured out on deck this afternoon. It was quite funny, though, to see them juxtaposed with the woman beside them in the wool hat and scarf. For myself, it was perfect t-shirt and capris weather for the daily walk on the promenade deck. Tomorrow we will be in Punta Arenas and I am very excited about walking with the penguins on Magdalena Island. More on that tomorrow………keep well and do not forget to take the time to smell the flowers, coffee, fresh air, each other and perform those random acts of kindness………lots of love, Sally xoxo
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