Category: South America

Today, we dropped anchor just off Carcass Island, another of the Falkland Islands, near the North-Western corner of the Main West Island group. Once again, the weather seemed favourable, and hopes were high for a repeat of the successful tender operation we all enjoyed yesterday. As before, tender tickets were issued from the Future Sales desk, this time working from...

Today, we dropped anchor in Blanco Bay, a short tender boats ride from Stanley, in the Falkland Islands. After all the anxiety about whether or not we would actually be able to get ashore, what with the location’s reputation for adverse weather conditions, it was a great relief to find ourselves surrounded by calm water, bright sunshine and clear blue...

…I had hoped a good nights sleep would make me feel better… it didn’t. I feel worse than yesterday. At least we don’t have any tours today. Despite feeling grotty (the concentration of overall snottyness has moved from my right nostril to my left), we were determined to see what Montevideo had to offer, having seen very little of it...