Feb 16, Cruising to Puerto Madryn

Another day at sea so decided to have a relaxing day starting with a sleep in. The weather has improved quite a bit today we have blue skies, good visibility and gentle seas.  Decided to go and listen to a talk on the fight for the Falklands, it was quite interesting as Kevin who was doing the talk went all the way back to when the Falklands were discovered, which explained why both the British and the Argentinians both feel that the islands are their territories. The Falklands are still listed as disputed territory and the United Nations each year is still encouraging both the British and the Argentinians to sort this territory out, the people on the Islands voted and they wish to be governed by the English the vote was 98% for and 2% against but still they wait. After this talk we listened to Bryan who was one of the experts on our trip talk about his years working on Antarctica, he was also very interesting and showed us some great slides, he has been working down there since 1974. He said when he first went down it would take him 6 weeks to get there, now it takes 6 hours as he has relocated his family to Christchurch in NZ and flies down with the US Antarctic team.