Early start today 7.15am with a visit to Admiralty Bay, which
is located on King George Island. Was a very pretty bay with some lovely
glaciers, also has the Argentinian base Almirante there. The seas are still
very calm, but the temperature is probably one of the lowest we have had 2
degrees, the sky is quite blue but can change very quickly to grey and
overcast. After leaving the Bay we are
now back in Drakes Passage the seas are getting choppier, but visibility is
still good. The Captain advised that off all his sailings to Antarctica this
sailing was the clearest, and that he had seen the most wild life ever. He has
us sailing at 18.5 knotts as he is still trying to get ahead of the wild
weather coming into the passage, he advised that the temperature would improve
tomorrow to a high of 5 degrees, but the swells would rise to 5 meters. We have
definitely experienced both ends of the temperature scale from the 40’s in
Santiago to minus in Antarctica, bright sunny skies to snow flurries and white
outs but oh its been amazing and wouldn’t have missed this for anything. After another
lovely dinner in the Canaletto restaurant we decided it was time to go back to
the cabin as the seas had been very rough for quite some time and it was
difficult to walk, needed to use handrails as much as possible. This was
without doubt the roughest seas we have had in our 11 cruises, the swells were
already over 5 meters and continued all night with some very high ones late at
night. So pleased we have always taken the advice we received when booking our
first cruise to get cabins in the middle of the ship and low down, as apart
from the problem with walking everything else was good, no signs of sea
sickness at all.
No comments:
Post a Comment