Feb 24, 2025. Cruising Sarmiento Channel

We are cruising through these channels most of the day.  We can go outside on the deck, but it is about 50 degrees and quite windy = brisk.

Just above the dark hill, you can see much higher, snow covered mountains.  I expect there are more behind them.  It's a little hard to get good pictures, because it has been raining all day.

Here is the first glacier we saw, Brujo, I believe.  Amazing!



 I got up at 5:30 a.m. to go to observation deck for "sunrise " rolls at 6 and then commentary on Brujo Glacier at 6:30.  Well, guess what. I don't know who figured out that schedule, but it dark until about 7:15.



In the afternoon we passed 6 or 7 glaciers, but the awesome thing was that we saw a nearly complete circle rainbow in the rain!  Pictures do not do it justice!  It was SO wide and SO full of color -- and it went into the water nearly to the ship!  I could almost reach down and grab that pot of gold.

Then we passed one of many shipwrecks.  All crew were saved ; they wrecked on a little island and climbed up on it.  Their ship eventually went adrift and floated a ways before she found her permanent position.


We had a great meal in the Dining Room, and returned to our room to find this adorable penguin! ❤️



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