Well…. We are totally blessed, that's all I can say! Woke up to a brilliant blue sky and crucially NO wind at all. We took a tender across to the port and walked the few blocks to the office of Solo Expediciones, the company that run the boat trips out to Magdalena Island. The news was good - the trip was on! Punta Arenas makes a good first impression. It has a frontier flavour as you would expect for a town more or less literally at the end of the w...

Exciting today really. Firstly the sun came back and the wind disappeared which made it very pleasant to be out on deck. We were still quite well covered i.e. long sleeved t shirts and trousers but, really pleasant conditions. And we're further south now than we've ever been and probably ever likely to be. Certainly, by the time we get to Punta Arenas tonight we will be as near Antarctica as we are ever likely to be….. well…. You never know….. Anyw...