The party’s over; it’s time to call it a day; regrettably. Here’s a few pictures of the ship taken during the 16 day cruise on ‘Silver Whisper’ from Buenos Aires, Argentina, down around the tip of South America, and up to Valparaiso in Chile.
“Life on the ocean wave” is drawing to a close with breakfast in bed. I started having breakfast in bed on the lazier ‘at sea’ days, for the past week! In the interests of my waist, nother newly acquired taste is Ryvita crispbread -in lieu of pastries and other breakfast buffet temptations. I do add …
It’s raining as we reach our last port of call, Puerto Montt; the only really wet day ashore on the cruise. But Chilean friend Matías makes it a lovely day driving us to the Lakes area where we can only imagine what a sunny day would be like. The buildings and houses along the lake …
Our chartered catamaran had engine trouble yesterday; we missed seeing the San Valentin glacier, ‘a massive wall of ice rising up from the lake like a blue-hued wall ‘ . . . pity . . . . . . so the captain decided to continue north and spend the day in the Archipielago de Chiloe. …
We are in the ‘wet’ Andes where there is more than 400 inches of rainfall a year. Charles Darwin was here in 1834 on a 5-year round the world expedition on the ‘Beagle’. Ferdinand Magellan sailed though here in the 16th century. Leaving Ushuaia and entering the Beagle Channel, we are blessed not only with …