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| Cape Horn, Chile - March 9, 2008 In the days of European exploration, Cape Horn was a mariner's idea of hell. Some 800 shipwrecks lie like so many scattered dog bones offshore. |
| The weather was not very good and we arrived at Cape Horn while it was still dark. Below is our first view of the Cape Horn lighthouse in the early morning light through the fog. The wind was blowing at about 20 knots and the sea was not too rough. We had to stay on the leeward side of the island since the windward side had winds over 40 knots and 12 to 15 foot seas. |
| We stayed at Cape Horn for about two hours and then started towards our next stop - Puerto Madryn, Argentina. We will be at sea two days. The sea got fairly rough later today with 6 to 9 foot seas and high winds (also pretty cold at 40F, so we didn't get much use of our veranda). |
| This is the lighthouse at Cape Horn. A man, his wife and two children are the only occupants of the island (sounds like pretty lonely duty!!) |
| These photos were taken near Nueva Island, which is some of the last land we saw before heading out to open ocean. |
| We were at sea all day, so we spent our time playing games with Judy and Rusty, worked on the web pages, spent some time in the library, and Igambled (this was the first time the casino had been open for the last four days. They are not allowed to have it open while we were in Chilean waters). I won $5!! |
