13 Feb 08. 12 Noon, Leaving Cape Horn
CAPE HORN
The weather was in perfect shape
When we set foot on the cape.
(It wasn’t as though
It was sleet and snow
And a problem to escape.)
The sea was like a placid lake.
Many photos I was pleased to take
Under the sky sunny bright.
What a glorious sight
Upon which to wake!
A perfect day like this must surely be rare at Cape Horn. We went ashore with the little Zodiac boats, about a dozen people to a load. We climbed up the long steep steps, walked the boardwalks over the tundra on the top of the cape, and checked out the albatross memorial and the light house. We stayed up there a long time, and I took a ton of pictures. When we get home I plan to put them on a disk and mal it to Dick Fuller who asked me to take some pictures of Cape Horn which, he said, had always interested him as a recreational sailor.
From our handout for today: “Cape Horn was discovered in January, 1616 by Dutchmen Jakob Le Maire and Willem Schouten, sailing in the Unity. They named the cape for their ship Hoorn, which had accidentally burned at Puerto Deseado on the Patagonian coast. Horn Island, of which the famous cape forms the southernmost headland, is just eight kilometers (5 miles) long. Te cape itself rises to 424 meters with striking black cliffs on its upper parts. A monument in the form of a large relief sculpture depicts an albatross in flight. It commemorates those lost at sea. A poem by Sara Vial is engraved on a metal plaque nearby.”
We started our visits to Cape Horn about 8 AM and got under way on the Drake Passage toward Antarctica about 11 AM..
Bernie
:-)
CAPE HORN
The weather was in perfect shape
When we set foot on the cape.
(It wasn’t as though
It was sleet and snow
And a problem to escape.)
The sea was like a placid lake.
Many photos I was pleased to take
Under the sky sunny bright.
What a glorious sight
Upon which to wake!
A perfect day like this must surely be rare at Cape Horn. We went ashore with the little Zodiac boats, about a dozen people to a load. We climbed up the long steep steps, walked the boardwalks over the tundra on the top of the cape, and checked out the albatross memorial and the light house. We stayed up there a long time, and I took a ton of pictures. When we get home I plan to put them on a disk and mal it to Dick Fuller who asked me to take some pictures of Cape Horn which, he said, had always interested him as a recreational sailor.
From our handout for today: “Cape Horn was discovered in January, 1616 by Dutchmen Jakob Le Maire and Willem Schouten, sailing in the Unity. They named the cape for their ship Hoorn, which had accidentally burned at Puerto Deseado on the Patagonian coast. Horn Island, of which the famous cape forms the southernmost headland, is just eight kilometers (5 miles) long. Te cape itself rises to 424 meters with striking black cliffs on its upper parts. A monument in the form of a large relief sculpture depicts an albatross in flight. It commemorates those lost at sea. A poem by Sara Vial is engraved on a metal plaque nearby.”
We started our visits to Cape Horn about 8 AM and got under way on the Drake Passage toward Antarctica about 11 AM..
Bernie
:-)
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