Cape Horn, Beagle Channel and Ushuaia
Our Antarctic voyage neared completion as the Southern Ocean rhythmically pulsed beneath us on approach to fabled Cape Horn. Our onboard expert ornithologist Richard White presented an overview of the world’s albatrosses, as black browed, wandering and royal representatives wheeled about outside.
Approaching from the west from the Pacific sector, we approached Isla Hornos at the bottom of the Americas and passed into the Atlantic, joining the ranks of seafarers, whalers and others who have ‘rounded Cape Horn.’ As symbol of the meeting of oceans and tribute to sailors lost in these waters, a cutout albatross silhouette adorns the ridge of the Chilean meteorological station there.
Photographer and software author of Adobe Photoshop, Tom Knoll, presented his digital images from our expedition to help remind us of our experiences, as the Endeavour journeyed east from Cape Horn for passage up the Beagle Channel to Ushuaia. Local Argentine pilots came aboard and helped us navigate the famous waterway named for the ship that carried Charles Darwin through these waters.
Expedition Leader, artist and all-around ‘ologist Tom Ritchie put the finishing touches on his illustrated chart of our journey to Antarctica, depicting our travels from Tierra del Fuego to beyond the Antarctic Circle and back. Two such personalized charts of our journey were auctioned off at the Captain’s Farewell Party to support Oceanites, the only private research project in Antarctica. Lindblad Expeditions is proud to support this important penguin and seabird study project.
Our encounters the past days with penguins, whales, seals and seabirds, and time spent sailing the surreally beautiful Antarctic Peninsula, cruising through ice floes, walking on frozen ocean, exploring historic huts, and hiking, kayaking, Zodiac cruising, and even swimming in the Antarctic, are now all part of the dream that is Antarctica to us.
Our Antarctic voyage neared completion as the Southern Ocean rhythmically pulsed beneath us on approach to fabled Cape Horn. Our onboard expert ornithologist Richard White presented an overview of the world’s albatrosses, as black browed, wandering and royal representatives wheeled about outside.
Approaching from the west from the Pacific sector, we approached Isla Hornos at the bottom of the Americas and passed into the Atlantic, joining the ranks of seafarers, whalers and others who have ‘rounded Cape Horn.’ As symbol of the meeting of oceans and tribute to sailors lost in these waters, a cutout albatross silhouette adorns the ridge of the Chilean meteorological station there.
Photographer and software author of Adobe Photoshop, Tom Knoll, presented his digital images from our expedition to help remind us of our experiences, as the Endeavour journeyed east from Cape Horn for passage up the Beagle Channel to Ushuaia. Local Argentine pilots came aboard and helped us navigate the famous waterway named for the ship that carried Charles Darwin through these waters.
Expedition Leader, artist and all-around ‘ologist Tom Ritchie put the finishing touches on his illustrated chart of our journey to Antarctica, depicting our travels from Tierra del Fuego to beyond the Antarctic Circle and back. Two such personalized charts of our journey were auctioned off at the Captain’s Farewell Party to support Oceanites, the only private research project in Antarctica. Lindblad Expeditions is proud to support this important penguin and seabird study project.
Our encounters the past days with penguins, whales, seals and seabirds, and time spent sailing the surreally beautiful Antarctic Peninsula, cruising through ice floes, walking on frozen ocean, exploring historic huts, and hiking, kayaking, Zodiac cruising, and even swimming in the Antarctic, are now all part of the dream that is Antarctica to us.
