We experience Cape Horn…

Today we get up early to experience traveling around Cape Horn. Cape Horn is a rocky headland on the island of Hornos Island, Tierra del Fuego is Chile. The first time a European rounded this island was when Magellan rounded it in 1520. In a wooden ship ,a wooden ship smaller than  my kitchen practically…a small,wooden ship with no heating,no indoor plumbing,not much of anything!

  Hornos Island in the background 

 

 

As we got closer to the Island and the Cape, the waters got choppier and the wind got more windy. The Cape is where the Atlantic and the Pacific meet and create the Drake Passage ( which we will head through in the next couple of days) Today we will make a left turn on the far side of the Horn and travel through the Beagle Chanel to the farthest south city in the world..Ushuaia,Argentina.

Today will be a sea day and so we will have the final trivia game from our entertainment director, Elmer. Our team has done quire well and our reputation as the team to beat has grown since Toronto,I think. Anyway today we won (again) and got a picture together. It was fun for us and we will miss the games. As we start the next phase of this trip,it is unknown whether there will be time for trivia as the pace will be quite different from what we have experienced so far. For now, we enjoy our notoriety!

Team members George,Sue .Steven,Al,Linda and Richard

Also today we pass an island with penguins hanging out. Look for a few bumps near the strip of land close to water….I could only see them with the binocs ….imagine we will see lots more in the next week!

In the afternoon we were invented to attend a Longitudinal World Cruise trivia contest with just the 83 member of our little group. It was Elmer’s parting gift to us…the questions were about the cruise itself and what we had been doing for the past 43 days! Its amazing how much we’ve done and how hard it is to remember

 

Elmer has a beautiful voice and at the end of our game he dedicated a song to us. It was quite emotional to realize that once again we are saying good bye to another crew member and reminds us that shortly we will be the ones saying goodbye. I’ll end this post today with a picture from a few afternoons ago…it had been cold,rainy and wet…. And yet this sign from the Universe was given to us as we sailed on…