It’s another beautiful day in Ushuaia: sunny and actually warm with no wind. It was a perfect day for a plane ride so Phil, Rick and I took a one-hour ride in a four-seater Piper all around Ushuaia and the surrounding spaces, including Puerto Williams. The mountains around here are craggy […]
It’s a beautiful sunny morning but chilly because of the wind. We had a champagne breakfast this morning with bacon, eggs, grits, etc. and Carlos was able to return to the boat for breakfast. Of course, he had to answer phone calls just about the whole time and reported to us that the Admiral had called him at 6:30 that morning. […]
The wind has picked up a bit this morning and it goes from being sunny to being overcast. Indigo went to the fuel dock about 10AM this morning to fill up for the trips ahead. When we came back to our anchorage, a reporter from “El Periodico”, a local newspaper, came on board. […]
I left Jacksonville late yesterday–flew to Miami–then to Buenos Aires–and arrived this morning in Ushuaia, Argentina. That’s approximately 4500 miles to BA and another bunch of miles to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego. Immigration in BA took only about 10 minutes, much less than the last time I was here but then I had to take a car to Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, another airport in BA, for the flight to Ushuaia. […]
After passing by the eastern entry into the Straits of Magellan, it and its nearby offshore oil wells invisible in the fog, we enter the Straits of Lemaire with the Isla de los Estados off to port. Thanks to good timing by the captain, the Straits are flat calm. Entering a protected bay, we anchor for the night and await our daylight voyage up the famed Beagle Channel to the Argentine city of Ushuaia. […]