Drake Passage
"Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink" goes the couplet in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and while we certainly weren't lacking in potable beverages, we spent the day firmly entrenched in the area so central to Coleridge's classic poem. It was here, south of Cape Horn and in the Drake Passage, that an incident occurred between a sailor and an albatross and so inspired the poet in 1797. We traversed these waters with much better fortune than Coleridge's Mariner, resting amply after a wonderfully fulfilling visit to Antarctica. The swells rolled under us and the albatrosses and petrels soared above us on our way north. Inside, our lecture program continued to shed new light on this fascinating region.
