Kauffman Commentary

Yesterday we finally entered the Straight of Magellan. We had had a rough night and half a day with high winds and rough seas. Neither one of us felt sea sickness, but we didn’t sleep well.

Thank goodness for the straight of Magellan, it is a good barrier to the seas of Cape Horn. At the mouth where we entered from the Atlantic it was very desolate. We saw a line of trucks waiting to ferry across. There is a ferry that runs every hour.

This morning the waters are calm and we have entered the national park called Alberto del Agostini. The Andes mountains that have popped up are snow covered and have waterfalls cutting through every so often. There are no other ships anywhere around us.

Glacier Alley

Ushuaia is on the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. It is considered the gateway to Antarctica. Its population is close to 83,000 folks and it is 2,064 miles to Santiago from Ushuaia.