Didn't set an alarm this morning and therefore didn't stir till about ten to nine. Unheard of! Our cabin is so quiet and as it has no window, once we put the light out, it's a blackout. So, great sleep. Had a quick breakfast and then scuttled off to bridge. Our last lesson before Valparaiso. Our usual partners didn't arrive and we ended up playing in a four with two of the instructors. That was a bit scary. Plus we were learning how to bid and play sl...

When we looked out this morning, we were slap bang in front of the largest glacier in the Southern Hemisphere outside of the Antarctic: The Pio XI Glacier. 41 miles long and 2000m high. An extraordinary blue wall of ice-water. Like a great tidal wave frozen in time, a scene out of The Day After Tomorrow, when the world freezes in a second…. Blue, blue ice walls with white crystalline shard toppings, deeply crevassed and streaks of grey where the glacier h...

Woke up this morning to the boat rolling a bit and realised we must have emerged into the Pacific from the Magellan Strait. Sure enough, outside there was a nice swell and quite a cold wind. Well, let's be honest: a very cold wind LOL. We were due to enter the fjord leading to the Amalia glacier at around 10am and knew it would calm down after that. The Chilean fjords are just amazing. Great soaring cliffs, some are bare rock, some green and thickly woo...