Monday 11th February – Puerto Chacabuco,
Chile.
Hadn’t booked any shore
trips today. We had planned to potter ashore, have a look around and use the
free WI-FI in the port. But, as Brigadier Ian Gardiner pointed out in his really
interesting lecture about planning in wartime, “no plan survives the first
contact with the enemy”. The port was closed when we arrived so we sat at
anchor all day in rain and with gusts of wind touching 30mph. We decided to
give the tender trips a miss, sort out our photos and update the blog. – Pretty
good choice when we saw all the bedraggled passengers returning to the ship!!
In the evening the planned
outdoor “hot Chile party” had to take place inside because of the weather but we
danced the night away with the 50 or so passengers who tried this phenomenon of
staying up past 9pm!!
Not surprisingly we slept
well that night…
Puerto Chacabuco, Chile
Tuesday 12th February – Laguna San Rafael,
Chile.
This is our extra trip now
that we’re not going to Ushuaia. As we said previously a 3 hr. catamaran trip
in the mist and rain to look at a glacier didn’t do it for us, so we had
another lazy day. (It’s almost beginning to be like we’re on holiday!!)
The Chilean Lake District
seems very like the English one – i.e. brilliant, if the sun came out!
Never mind – perhaps the
good weather is waiting for us at Cape Horn…
We’ve decided to have
another “posh” dinner in the Explorer Restaurant tonight, so I suppose wine
will have to be drunk!
A 'Lake' District with no rain? I think that was wishful thinking!
ReplyDeleteI was starting to wonder about the gap in the blog and thought that perhaps a few too many Pisco Sours (or should it be Piscos Sour?) had caused you to miss the boat.......
still no mention of winning Voyager pens for winning the evening quiz. I would have thought that by now, having heard the questions 4 or 5 times, you would have more pens than WH Smith, or has the wine affected the grey matter??!!