December 30, 2023
Kathy and I are on the Viking Octantis cruise ship. It is an icebreaker ship. We are headed to Antarctica for a few days.
We started our exploration by flying to Buenos Aires and spending the night. We found a great restaurant (Huacho) a few blocks from the hotel. Great start to another adventure.
I love lamb and Kathy had a local trout fish. It looked and tasted like salmon.
The next morning, we flew to Ushuaia Argentina where we got on the ship. Then we sailed into the Drake Passage soon after leaving the port. It can be very rough seas. But wasn’t for us. Then we had a whole series of briefings as to what to wear, what we can’t bring and all sorts of other info. Then we got our boots. We were given new Viking winter coats.
All we can see at the moment is water and gray skies. No land anywhere.
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