Today we are cruising the Beagle Channel which is off of the Straight of Magellan that we have been in. Tonight we will be cruising around Cape Horn and it might get rough and we will probably lose internet so I am hoping to download some pictures of the Glaciers we saw today.
Cape Horn to say the least is usually "choppy" because it marks the exact point at which two oceans join But there is a third force at work. The water surrounding Antarctica, sometimes referred to as the Southern Ocean has it own current. At this latitude there is no land to block the ocean current as it swirls around the polar region.
Cape Horn lies where the continental shelf rises fom 13,120 foot deep Pacific bed and where the strong force of the winds that blow around around Antarctica often create gales with waves that are frequently more than 65 feet high. The weather forcast of the area announces an average of 200 days of gale and 13 days of cloudy sky and for the rest of he yea the wind is strong and the sea is rough~.
These pictures were all taken from our veranda!
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