3 - Fin del Mundo

We had a full day at sea today, crossing the infamous Drake Channel, known as one of the roughest ship passages in the world... usually. On the previous sailing, the seas were so rough, known as the 'Drake Shake,' that the baby grand piano in the lounge overturned! However, on our way south, we experienced the mythical 'Drake Lake,' almost mirror-like seas, so calm that even the guides were taking photos so their friends would believe them. We slept peacefully with the gentle rocking of the boat... Jan had the song, 'Rock Me Gently' running in her head all night.

The Drake Lake



The beds were equipped for the 'Drake Shake'



We had daily briefings and Learning & Discovery lectures in the lounge


I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns. ~Ernest Shackleton

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. ~Roald Amundsen

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. ~Andrew Denton


Jan's song tonight was 'It's only rock and roll, but I like it!'


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