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 the water was as flat as a mill pond, and there wasn’t enough wind to fly a kite!

We got dressed and went out to the balcony, when we looked towards the bow we saw Cape Horn. The weather was so calm that the ship had been placed bow on to the Cape and only a few hundred yards off shore. According to the Captain, this is a very rare occurence.

The captain slowly rotated the boat around to give everyone a good view of the Cape. Below are a couple of pictures of the lighthouse station there. That’s what I would call an isolated posting!! The first picture is not “zoomed” so you can see how close in we were!

We were very fortunate with the weather, just a few hundred yards along the coast there was thick fog. We went anti clockwise around the island but the Iconic South Face (as the Captain called it) was fogged in.

Although we were lucky to see the views that we did, part of me was still wishing for some playful seas!

Talking of seas. Below is the view of the sea from our cabin, the plate glass on the balcony wall is blue tinted, making for a very nice sea view.

In reality, the sea is far more grey (gray) as you can see in the photo taken over the balcony.

We took a stroll around the rather cool 10C/50F promenade deck, then went back inside to warm up. It just so happened there was a towel folding demonstration. Below are some of the results!