I slept pretty good last night. About 0400 the seas picked up enough
to wake me up. It's actually not bad, just a slow gently rocking
motion which made it very easy to go back to sleep. I slept in until
just after 1000 which is the first time since I left that I got more
than 7 hours of sleep.
Today we are traveling along the east coast of Tierra Del Fuego, the
end of South America. I went out on deck for a bit to watch the last
bit of land that we will be seeing for the next few days. There have
been several pods of dolphins over the past day, but today was my
first chance to see them. They were black and white and spent awhile
bow riding. In a few hours, we will be leaving the coast and staring
our crossing of the Drake. I understand that it should only take a
day or so to cross the Drake, but I've been told that it sometimes
takes 4-5 when it's really rough as they have to point the boat into
the waves. Next update probably won't be until tomorrow unless
something of note happens before the nightly mail delivery and I have
some spare time.
This post was written at 1300 EDT 13 May 2007
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