Jan 28/12: The Trinidad Channel (Part 2)

Jan 28/12: Traversing the Trinidad Channel

 

Jan 28 cont'd...

 

So - the Captain has altered our course now and we will be going into a passage this ship has never been in before. I feel like "space... the final frontier... where no one has gone before..." a true explorer now. The name of the straight, in case you want to look it up is called "Trinidad Channel" off the lower S coast of Chile in the Chilean Fjords (just above Isla Madre de Dios). This is in place of the Pantagian Fjords which we were supposed to be cruising at 6pm today. Now we will have more time in the fjords as the Captain plans to navigate through them tomorrow as we head for the Amelia glacier. We got into the Trinidad around 6:30 tonight and it is actually very calm here because it is protected from the winds on both sides. Apparently we will be circling slowly all night, then heading to the glacier in the next fjord so we are there for between 8 -9 am. That means we have to get up early... sigh....

 

BTW: although my computer says it is 9.14 PM it is actually 2 hours later here due to 2 time changes we have had so far, so in 'our' time it is 11.14.

 

So, what are we doing now, you might ask? Well, Dad & I discovered a new sipping rum that is very nice, so we are in our room sipping an ounce each. We bought a whole bottle - it was $35 US for the L which we thought was very reasonable - it is called Gosling's Black Seal. I don't think we have in the LCBO at home, and so we were wondering if we should bring home a bottle for everyone to taste.... can one of you check out to see if it is available at the local LCBO - if so, what price? We have never seen this one at the rum tastings at Prevost. Dad is doing Sudoku and of course I am writing to you. We just ordered room service to bring us 2 pots of cinnamon tea, which we will drink a little later before bed.

 

We have 3 loads in the laundry machines up on the 3rd floor all going at once. This is lucky because tomorrow being another sea day everyone will be up there and there won't be a machine to be had for ages. They take forever to fill up because the cold water just trickles in. Then it goes into the dryer which is equally slow, so I expect to be up for a while longer. The good thing about the laundry though is that it is free on this ship so we can do as much as we want. It's the drying of the delicates and things that can't be dried that are a problem as we don't have a lot of places in the cabin to put them all. So we are trying to only do a few of those those items at a time.