Friday, March 6, 2015

Antarctica cruise day 2

Yesterday, day 1, was boarding, orientation, and an emergency lifeboat drill. We were shuttled to the ship on buses at 4pm. There was a Russian ship boarding as well carrying a group who plans to run a marathon at Antarctica. Our cabin is very spacious with a king size bed, a couch, TV with DVD player, large closet and a bathroom with a shower. Our windows are large round port lights. By 6pm we were on our way. At dinner we sat with Donald and Rebecca from Ireland. Donald is a navigator on an oil tanker and Rebecca has a PHD in Organic Chemistry. We had met them at the pizza party the night before. I took a few pictures of Puerto Williams as we passed by during dinner. After dinner we got our bright yellow expedition coats and boots. The coats will be ours to keep.

Shortly after we went to bed there was a knock on the door. The steward wanted to close the hatches over the port lights by order of the captain due to the sea conditions. Our gribs of Wednesday were predicting 50 knots from the west. We are very glad the captain decided to stay within the Beagle Channel last night. As I write this (10:40 am, 3/6) we are passing Isla Nueva. The seas are confused, 3 meter swells, 6 foot wind waves. The motion of the ship is different from Windarra and it take some getting used to.

This morning we listened to a talk on sea mammals - whales, sea lions and seals, sit down and learn stuff.

It is nice to leave the driving to someone else.

More later....

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