We are about half way through our voyage now and have reached Cape Horn.

Cape Horn is a rocky headland on Hornos Island, in southern Chile’s Tierra del Fuego archipelago. It’s surrounded by wild seas off the southern tip of South America where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet. The albatross-shaped Cape Horn Monument commemorates the lives of thousands of seafarers who perished attempting to sail around the cape. A secluded lighthouse and the tiny Stella-Maris Chapel are nearby.

We were up at 6.15 to ensure we didn’t miss seeing the lighthouse. The sea state wasn’t too bad when we arrived and after a while of cruising by it was decided to send a rib (landing craft) with a safety officer and ship’s photographer over to the headland to take photos of the ship. However, some of the seaweed there managed to clog the engine and it lost power so another rib was sent out to help. Unfortunately the same thing happened to that one so one of the lifeboat’s went to their assistance. By this time the wind had increased and the sea was so rough it took over four hours to get them back to the ship. The pilots were brilliant but it must have been quite a task.