Our Excellent 2009 Adventure

Jan. 16 through Feb. 2, 2009

14 Night Cruise
Radiance of the Seas
Buenos Aires, Argentina
to Santiago, Chile

Boston to Buenos Aires
is 5,352 air miles.
Over 4,000 Nautical miles sailed
from Buenos Aires, around Cape Horn, ending in Valparaiso.
Falkland Islands Pier
 17.1.2009 Buenos Aires, Argentina
19.1.2009 Montevideo, Uruguay
21.1.2009 Puerto Madryn, Argentina
23.1.2009 Port Stanley, Falklands
25.1.2009 Cape Horn, Chile
26.1.2009 Ushuaia, Argentina
27.1.2009 Punta Arenas, Chile
28.1.2009 Strait of Magellan
29.1.2009 Chilean Fjords
30.1.2009 Puerto Montt, Chile
1.2.2009 Valparaiso, Chile

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 This picture documents one of the many highlights of our trip; the Falkland Islands. We had other highlights too, like Category Two hurricane force winds one night at sea...

Maps

  • Overview
  • Skau Glacier
  • Relocavi Fjord and Southern Highway

Our Hotel in Buenos Aires, Hotel Emperador
Magellan Penguin chicks at Punta Tombo from Puerto Madryn
Gentoo and King Penguins at Bluff Cove Lagoon, from Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
     

Did you feel the "bump"? Sailing completely around Cape Horn, at this point crossing from the Atlantic into the Pacific and then return into the Atlantic.
Tierra del Fuego Nat. Park. Looking back to the view as we board the catamaran tour through the Beagle Channel.
Sea Lions in the Beagle Channel.
Tour originates in Ushuaia,
     

The Captains' excursion to the Skau Glacier (aka, Amalia) somewhere on the way through the Fjords.
View from the ferry in the Reloncavi Fjord. Tour originated from Puerto Montt
More Sea Lions in Reloncavi Fjord.

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