December 23, 2017
Sunrise this morning was 5:12 a.m. and the ship was cruising in the Beagle Channel along Glacier Alley on its way to Ushuaia, Argentina for the afternoon and early evening call. This was the first Argentinian port of the trip. When we cruised through this area in February 2012, the ship passed the area in the early morning, so we did not see the glaciers then. The Beagle Channel is named after the 1850s expedition ship which carried Charles Darwin as its naturalist. Charles Darwin and some other crew members surveyed the area from a rowboat in this area. The Beagle Channel is 240 km long and 3 to 12 km wide. When we first looked out this morning there was a small ripple to the water. At wider points waves would be present, but it was a smooth cruise. The ship docked just before noon and stayed in port until 8 pm. This morning’s temperature was 6 C, a bit windy and cloudy, but occasionally the sun broke through brighten...