3/5 - At Sea: Cruising the Chilean Fjords

This was a great day as well. Most of the day was spent hanging out around the ship, other than Jim playing in a ping pong tournament and me participating in a "food and wine pairing" wine tasting at 1:30 pm. The food and wine pairing was a total bust, but I ended up meeting some other people that we kept seeing and hanging out with throughout the ship. The tasting was really boring - the worst one I've ever been to. Everyone was seated at round dinner tables set for ten people. Each person had five wines in front of their place, along with a plate with pieces of plain (cold) boiled chicken, more cold boiled chicken with a pesto sauce on it, some pieces of parmesan cheese, and some black olives. The chief sommelier was running the wine tasting and was going super slowly, and spent half his time scolding people for going ahead of him and the other half telling people they wouldn't get any more wine (duh, the more people drink, the more wine you're going to sell! I don't think anyone bought anything.)

I didn't expect it to last as long as it did, and we had been told that at 3 pm we should be able to get our first glimpse of the fjords, so I left early as I wanted to be out on deck for that and was bored silly. I met Jim on deck and Milos, the naturalist on board who was super interesting and had tons of great information, was giving a talk on deck about how the fjords were formed by glaciers and other facts about them.

Here's what we saw (and it was freaking COLD by this point - probably in the 50s with a cold wind - so this is why I was wrapped up in a blanket after a while.)

Both sides of the ship were surrounded by the scenery as we were sailing right into the middle of it. At this point there was not yet any snow or ice covering anything - we would not see that until the next day.

It was absolutely gorgeous, as you can see, and an awe-inspiring experience that would get even better the next day when we sailed through the Strait of Magellan!

Comments

[Lara]

Man, I am behind on blog reading. Your adventures look like so much fun and I can't believe how gorgeous it is! I would certainly want to take this cruise someday!

[marjorie]

Just catching up with the last three days--and all I can say is "wow". What beautiful scenery!

[adrienne]

Robin these are even more gorgeous!!! I can't wait to see more! LOL

[Michelle]

Gorgeous pictures again! Can't wait to see more!

[tiennie]

Catching up on your posts - fantastic trip so far!

[Jeanine]

Those pics are breathtaking. I bet it must have been incredible to see it in person.

[Kat]

OK, Robin. Now I'm wondering why we had kids LOL ;) . Because if we didn't, then we could afford going on a trip like that. What scenery! So beautiful. And to think our big summer trip is a 3 hour drive to a softball tournament for who else--one of my kids. What were we thinking :) !?!?

[knittymuggins]

Such a cool trip so far! Sorry the tasting was a bust though :(

[Kasia]

You guys must had tons of fun! Those pics are great and you look splendid!