On the Quest to see pingüinos

[VPS]

There was a huge variety of wooden shingle types and some of them were beautiful and others needed a lot of TLC

 

[VPS]

We had a very quick wander around the town square of Castro but it was all too rushed


More puppies looking very intensely to see if there was going to be anything left over

 

[VPS]

Then it was back onto the ship and caviar and champagne on the deck while we sailed away

That evening we had a block party where everyone came out of their cabins and mingled with their neighbours. They had crew wandering around with champagne and nibbles

A nice sunset

 

[VPS]

One of the reasons for me taking so long to get this TR done is the thousands of photos I have to cull.

I took over 200 at the El Brujo glacier and culled it down to 20 after much angst and so I'm just going to post them all so be prepared for glacier overload.

 

[VPS]

More glacier

 

[VPS]

There was a Thomas Keller Grill restaurant on board and you didn't have to pay extra to go but you had to make a booking and it wasn't always easy to get in.

The food was excellent and although I enjoyed the food on the ship this was definitely a step above.

The Caesar salad was made at your table.

Crab cake, beef tornadoes with truffle sauce and chocolate layer cake. Ordinary wines were included but the price of the additional special wines were eye wateringly expensive. Around $30 US for a glass of wine.

The sides were incredibly decadent - the mac and cheese was superb as were the mashed potatoes

 

[VPS]

Just some general photos of drinks that were available and the extras



There were always plenty of nibbles available with your drinks

 

[RooFlyer]

Yeah, glaciers do that! Fabo-o TR, but where is El Brujo glacier?

 

[VPS]

@RooFlyer thanks for the feedback on the TR - I do wonder sometimes if it's worth the time and effort but I've also enjoyed yours and others so pushing on.

Peel Fjord - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Peel Fjord is a fjord in Chile. It branches off from the Sarmiento Channel[1] and is located at 50°52′S 74°0′W.[2]

The east side of the fjord has three side fjords, named Amalia, Asia and Calvo.[1] At the head of Amalia Fjord is Amalia Glacier. El Brujo Glacier is found in Asia Fjord, which is another glacier spilling from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Calvo Fjord splits into several arms towards which also descend glaciers.

 

[Flying mermaid]

@RooFlyer thanks for the feedback on the TR - I do wonder sometimes if it's worth the time and effort but I've also enjoyed yours and others so pushing on.

we all love reading trip reports and although we went to Antarctica a year ago, there is a lot you have in here that is different to our trip so very interesting to read/see.

 

[VPS]

we all love reading trip reports and although we went to Antarctica a year ago, there is a lot you have in here that is different to our trip so very interesting to read/see.

Thanks FM

 

[RooFlyer]

Peel Fjord is a fjord in Chile. It branches off from the Sarmiento Channel[1] and is located at 50°52′S 74°0′W.[2]

Ah! Way down there. We saw the San Rafael glacier, which is the southern extremity of the body of water that Puerto Montt is on. I also went nuts photographing the shingles at the place stopped at on Chiloe.

 

[drron]

VPS it is always a pleasure to read trip reports either to remind us of previous trips or to add to our bucket list.I am definitely enjoying this TR.

 

[tgh]

Another strong endorsement… great tr VPS , I have been with you all the way….more more more……

As an aside that probably needs its own thread…. the tr's seem to be drying up or are left unfinished .. why is it so ?

 

[RooFlyer]

VPS it is always a pleasure to read trip reports either to remind us of previous trips or to add to our bucket list.I am definitely enjoying this TR.

And a good reason to do TRs ( as you know) is to reinforce the memory by having to recall the various details and incidents. A supplementary memory bank I can go back to too!

 

[Flashback]

Another strong endorsement… great tr VPS , I have been with you all the way….more more more……

As an aside that probably needs its own thread…. the tr's seem to be drying up or are left unfinished .. why is it so ?

Coronavirus

 

[VPS]

Thanks to everyone for the positive feedback and I will persist.

 

[craven morehead]

Thanks to everyone for the positive feedback and I will persist.

Excellent news

 

[VPS]

OK - time to get back into this. I've had some spare time recently but it's amazing how long I can spend doing not much and when this whole C word thing is over I'm not sure that I'm going to be as efficient as I once was. I'm also trying to limit screen time and because I'm sitting a lot and not getting to Pilates or hydrotherapy my back has been very niggly. But I've culled the photos from over 5000 to less than 2000 (and no I won't share them all but you will see a lot)

I had to go back and reread the TR to see where I was up to.

So sea days mean trivia and we had a good team. It was coughulative for a few days at a time and so after four days were crowned the winners and we all got a Seabourn Bear who was a new friend for Paddington.

The crew that came to my room often mentioned my bear (although I did think one of them was asking about my beer one day). One of the crew was English and had been brought up with Paddington and was horrified that one of the other crew members was from Peru and never heard of Paddington so he bought him one.

 

[VPS]

Day 7 Punta Arenas

There was a free shuttle bus into the centre of town. I didn’t fancy any of the excursions so I caught the bus into the main square. Caught taxi up to the lookout with some others and then just wandered to the seafront to take some photos. Museum was closed so back up to the square and then bus back to ship. Weather was cool but mostly sunny but some very strong gusts of wind. Thought it was a nice little town with some nice buildings.

I can't remember the name of the ship in the harbour. I guess it was smaller than hours because they were able to dock in town and we were about 15 minutes out of town








Statue of Ferdinand Majellan and the ever present dog snoozing in the sun