Wow!

Well WoW! So many experiences on so many levels have happened in just the first couple of day. If this keeps up I might just be living a lifetime in 2 weeks. Ushuaia was amazingly beautiful, especially the sunrises, and not no so cold. We have left on the boat to cross the Drake Passage. I believe that the collective intention of everyone on the ship has blessed this expedition with a very, very rare calm crossing of the Drake Passage. I hope we can be this lucky on the return trip. We saw a couple of pods of Fin Whales, about 10 to 15, today. It’s really wonderful to see 20 meters size whales blowing out of the water. Also today we ran across our first iceberg. Now while this is not my first iceberg, it was impressive. The colours within the iceberg were like a rainbow of the blue spectrum. Incredibly beautiful! As I write down this blog, we have had our first land sighting of King George Island. So it’s official, we have survived the first trip across the Drake Passage. Everyone, including me, is very eager to get on land and off this ship that we have been on for two days straight. I will tell you all about our first landing on the next instalment of my blog. Till then, keep sending the warms thoughts, because it’s very cold down here at the end of the world.