Monthly Archives: February 2024

A Change of Plan

We’ll start off with a couple of sunset pictures from last night, unfortunately they could be better as they were taken through a salt stained window. I think the “double” sun in the top picture is caused by the angle … Continue reading

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Penguins, Penguins and More &**%&(* Penguins.

Well, we came to see penguins and we weren’t disappointed. We moored about 1.5 miles off Stanley in the Falkland Islands some time while it was still dark! As before, it was easier to get room service for breakfast, we … Continue reading

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Quiz Time

Today’s trip was a long and arduous one, think 3 hour full body massage in a Land Rover (Jeep). Today’s blog will be written tomorrow! In the meantime I’ll post the writing on the drivers key chain and see if … Continue reading

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Unusual Conditions!

We woke up early this morning to see Cape Horn at Sun rise. Imagine our disappointment when we looked out of the cabin and saw nothing! In my mind there should have been gale force winds and heavy seas. Instead … Continue reading

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Another new Country

This morning we woke up at a little more civilised hour (for us), to find the ship slowly cruising through some fairly narrow channels with snow covered mountains either side. In fact we were just about to enter the Argentinian … Continue reading

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Punta Arenas

I’ve started to run out of titles! Sometime overnight we arrived in Punta Arenas, however as we didn’t wake up until 0900 I have no idea what time that was! I say we didn’t wake up, we were actually woken … Continue reading

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Brrrrrrr!

We set the alarm to get up at sunrise!! We had arrived in south western Chile where there are a number of inlets and fjords along the coast. Going out onto the balcony it was obvious it was cold (5C/41F), … Continue reading

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Shake,Rattle and Roll.

The ship has been moving around a fair bit these last couple of days, making walking an interesting exercise, not is it just rolling and pitching, every so often there is a large”thump” as though a couple of ginormous sledge … Continue reading

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Puerto Montt

Our first tour on the cruise! Unfortunately this involved a 0615 wake up call! We were debating whether we needed to get up earlier, but then had the smart suggestion of room service! This would save us having to head … Continue reading

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Nothing to Do!!!

Today was a day at sea, we could get up when we wanted and do what we wanted when we wanted! It was a day of discovery, we had to find our way around the ship, how things worked etc. … Continue reading

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