We will begin with the end of our day, because who would have ever thought – sitting on our balcony in bathing suits toasting a warm day at the bottom of the world? We are about 650 miles north of Antarctica here, but the pictures don’t lie! Speaking of Antarctica, there is a group of very unhappy passengers on this ship. They paid $3,000 EACH (not a misprint) for a 10-hour round-trip to the Chilean portion of Antarctica, to basically say, “Yeh, I have been to Antarctica.” Anyway, as there are no Navaids down there for the pilots, the gravel road the plane lands on was below VFR minimums, so the trip was scrubbed, thus lots of disappointed people. We hiked with one family that just saved itself $18,000 for this single excursion! We saw a
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