New Years - 2016 - Day 9

Today we arrived in Puerto Madryn which is close to the end of the world and looks like it.  The landscape is very barren.  Originally we had a whale watching trip planned; however, the operator of the trip sent us an email last week saying the whales had left the area to go to colder water so our trip was cancelled.

There was a 7 hour trip, including 4 hours driving by bus to go see penguins; however, we are taking a private trip on our next stop that is by boat to see penguins so we didn’t go on the trip from here.

We took a shuttle bus into town and attempted to book a car and driver to go see the sea lions but they have also left to go further south.

Bottom line is that we simply walked around the main part of the town for a couple of hours, bought a couple of souvenirs and took the shuttle bus back and ate on the ship.  We didn’t even see anywhere that we wanted to eat in the port.

We ate in Aqua Spa and then were out in the sun for an hour before coming in.  Barb has gotten too much sun over the last couple of days so we have to be very careful.  For only the second time ever, she used spf 45 this afternoon!

Next we took a nap and then dressed to go out for our usual evening activities.

The next two days will be spent cruising and it is amazing how much cooler it is getting. Hopefully we will be able to be out in the sun at least tomorrow – we will just have to wait and see.

The shows are before dinner which really makes it nice.  Tonight it was a comedian/juggler who was pretty good. 

Dinner was as usual and very good and then it was onto the casino where Barb won a little and Ed did not!!

Tomorrow we will be at sea and we have been told the ocean will start to get rough as we round Cape Horn – wish us luck.

Night from the Atlantic Ocean.



Ships grounded in the harbor

A local "tree"

A tree carved - one of many

A morning snack