Now I have travelled through

We have now travelled around the Horn and seen several Chilean glaciers and are about to fly to our next destination and continent. This mean I have officially travelled from the top of North America passing through Central America to the southernmost tip of  South America. But there are still several more countries in Central America and South America I would like to visit at a later date.

However, Port Stanley in the Falklands is not one of those places. To get from the ship to Port Stanley required getting on a tender in very choppy water. Okay not so bad but as another passenger said it was like riding a bucking bronco. We waited to see if the weather would be better but this was not to happen. Instead it started to rain and sleet. Here are some photos taken from the ship. It would have been nice to see the penguins but that still required taking a truck across bumpy rocky roads to stand in the cold wind. Maybe another time or another place. Was told by some Australian passenger that there are some in Perth at Penguin Island. Who knew;-)

Now this doesn't mean that the weather was any better or any worse for the rest of our cruise. Punta Arenas, Chile was chilly and windy as well as was Ushuaia, Argentina. In Punta Arenas on really windy days ropes are strung from one building to another to allow pedestrian to go between the buildings.

Punta Arenas, Chile

Port area 

Cold and windy but several trees were blooming

Bigger city than I thought it would be and that is snow on the hill in the background

Ferdinand Magellan

Ushuaia, Argentina

Last year our Med cruise experienced bad weather and we did not get to go Marrakech but our luck was better going around Cape Horn. The island is owned by Chile and has a family with two children living on it. Not certain how the children go to school. The are also mines on the island in case there is an invasion, huh?

Cape Horn

Now it is time to pack and leave for Oz. So more later about Valparaiso and Santiago Chile.