Day 4 through 9 – 12-17 Jan – Confined to State Room

We had lower GI issues starting on day 4. We sailed the Atlantic toward Puerto Madryn. As we approached Puerto Madryn and hung around for a while, the captain and port officials determined that the 35 to 45 knot winds were too extreme to actually dock the boat, so after a few hours, Puerto Madryn was in our rear view mirror.  We are headed to the Falklands with a few more sea days.  

Day 7 was choppy but I managed to take a few pictures.

After a lovely dinner, I went to bed and from midnight to four AM, repeated prior evenings.  As a result, no penguins for us.  Susan is fine, but didn’t want to risk boarding the tender for the ride to shore for the penguins and didn’t really want to leave me here for four hours. 

Anyway, the wind is at 45 knots, but they eventually were able to get folks off the ship for their shore excursions.  For us, we have some nice shots from the deck of our state room.

Next shore excursions are on the 19th at Ushaia, Argentina, with interesting sights in the process as we get closer to the cape.  We are now at a latitude of 51 degrees South, which is the northern equivalent of Banff park.

I just realized why this place looks so familiar.  The Falklands are as far south as Amchitka is far north.  The only difference it here they have penguins and there sea otters!

A bit of explanation for those whom I have only known in the 2000’s, Amchitka in the Aleutians was the location of the Relocatable OTH Radar, where Susan and I spent many idyllic times in the late 80s and early 90s.  We were actually there once while three kids were in Camp and Anna was in the Ecuador.