We flew from Santiago Chile to Punta Arenas, which is located 53 degrees south of the
equator. We boarded the Stella Australis, a small cruise ship with 175 other people,
then started down the coast. The winds were high, and the gusts higher.
We were disconnected from TV, radio, telephone and internet
services. We had been told, we would see weather from all four seasons in the
same day. As it turned out, at any one time when we panned the skyline, we
would see several different weather systems. Then, as we moved, and the systems
moved, the weather changed abruptly, sometimes within minutes. On our first
shuttle ashore by zodiac, snow was in the air.
It became apparent that we were going to be challenged as we
venture south along Chile's coastline to Cape Horn, where the cold Atlantic ocean mixes with the warm
Pacific to create some of the most unstable weather in the world.
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