Cape Horn: 57.6° S, 67.3° W; 4° C (39° F)

We have been sailing north for a day and a half, and are now off Cape Horn, heading for Ushuaia later today.  With my last few minutes of internet time on the ship, I have decided to post some of my favourite photos that just didn’t make it into my daily updates.  The map shows our stops along the way.  I have numbered them on through six, though there are two fours due to our stops in quite different locations on Wednesday.

Getting off the zodiacs was sometimes as easy as stepping onto ice, as here, or as interesting as sliding off into six or eight inches of water.  Glad I had my boots and Gortex pants!

Some damn fools sailed from Ushuaia to Port Lockroy in this little craft.  On the right you can see the ship wedged into the pack ice at Lallemand Fjord.

A common sight as we approached land would be penguins lined up at the top of a rock cliff.  They always reminded me of the cowboy and Indian movies of my childhood when the cowboys would stop to assess their situation and find Indians ready for war, all lined up at the top of a rise.

Penguins are comical and it is easy to make up captions for their antics.  Let me know if you have better captions than I.

It is simply not possible to describe the beauty of Antarctica and my pictures cannot capture how vast and serene this continent can look.  What a fabulous trip!