Up early this morning (after placing our luggage out last night), to find that we'd docked in Valparaiso, right next to the Chilean navy. Quick brekkie in the Lido and then sit and wait, sit and wait until 8.30-8.45 when we could leave the ship. After collecting the luggage we found our local Bunniks tour guide outside. We had a tour of Valparaiso, including walking around the streets and catching the funicular down the hill to the port area. Then we drove over t...

What a wonderful day!!! We had breakfast in the restaurant - smoked salmon and Belgian waffles - awesome! Then we returned to our cabin and started packing. Later in the morning we returned my library book and then went to the virtual tour of the engine room talk which was entertaining and informative! After the talk we went up to the pool area for hamburgers and Pina coladas and discovered our Bunnikins crew up there so we sat with them until 2 when we went to t...

This morning we arrived in Puerto Montt - the holiday resort area of Chile - although Puerto Montt itself has industry (salmon farms, timber and manufacturing) as well. We had an all-day shore excursion out to a town on a lake overlooked by an awesome majestic volcano - Osorno Volcano. Our first stop was the Petrohue Falls - which are sort of horizontal waterfalls, or river rapids After the waterfalls we drove through lava fields, some over a hundred years old, r...

We slept in this morning, after a very unsettled night. The seas were a little rough and we were rocking and rolling. We had some cereal upstairs, and joined Warren and Mel at their table for a lovely catch up. We were invited to a brunch for Mariner Society members (which we had joined before we left home) so at 11am we went to the lower level of the restaurant where we were greeted by the Captain and the cruise director and treated to a delicious 3 course meal ...

Lovely quiet day on board today. Sleep in, late Brekky. Leisurely time for the ship too as we timed to reach a certain shallow shoal at high tide as we had very little space (4ft) under the keel. We navigated this area really slowly with the Chilean pilot on board. We went to a talk by the First Officer - a virtual tour of the bridge. He was very interesting and amusing and, when someone asked, he admitted that we are not allowed to go straight from the Falklands...