Anyone ever heard of Ushauia? - (besides KAC)? No, we hadn't either!
Great surprise for all travelers.
Weather was perfect. Sunny day and 61 degrees -
Took a great trip ashore. A 4 hour hike in the "bogs" and mountains about 25 minutes from town. They gave us rubber boots up to our calves, which in some cases was not quite high enough.
The bogs were slushy, wet, and very muddy. Some on the tour got their boots stuck in the bog mud and needed help getting out. Reminded us of quick sand, but was bog-mud.
A nice cabin was situated conveniently for us to change our shoes, have a hot tea or coffee and get warmed up if we needed. We enjoyed it much more than the penguin trip.
Ushauia has a saying. It's the town at the end of the world and the beginning of the world. Tomorrow we go around Cape Horn and the following day cruise the rest of the way around the Cape to "begin the new world".
We are also looking forward tomorrow to our first Tango lesson.
Sunrise is 5:30 a.m. and sunset is 10:00 p.m. It's now 9:30 p.m and we just departed from Ushauia in broad daylight. Land of the midnight sun. Longest day of the year is Dec. 21st.
More to follow
Bye for now.
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Ushauia used to have a fairly important (24/7)electronics manuafacturing center nearby. You are enjoying exceptionally good weather having missed the wind at Punta Arenas and the incessant rain in Ushuaia. It is beautiful country when the sun is out. There also used to be an exceptional chocolate place in the middle of town..do not remember much else of note in the town but the countryside was very pretty. Wonder how you are faring at the Horn. If you have calm seas for that, you have REALLY lucked out. Big D and I missed no meals but J ended up getting injection from ship's doctor to soothe motion malady. Seems to me there were lines of passengers waiting for remedies.
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