This is my first entry, and I really hope it will be interesting enough to catch your attention. On February 18th. we embarked on a cruise for 8 days and 7 nights. Our ship, called FORREST, was almost the same size as the HMS BEAGLE, which of course was very exciting. We had with us the four volumes in Spanish of : "Narrative of the Serveying Voyages of his Majesty´s Ships Adventure and the Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836" by Robert Fitz Roy (published for the first time in 1839) Our voyage would take us along the channels, bays and coasts described in Fitz Roy´s, Darwin´s and many other seamen´s journals. It was a typical Magellan day, grey, windy and raining, two Zodiacs were waiting for us and we could see our ship anchored
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