February 12, 2014

Yesterday’s day at sea began sunny, warm and smooth sailing.  However by afternoon, the sea became angry and the waves were splashing up to our deck 6 balcony.  We couldn’t see through the sliders from all the salt.  Many passengers (including us) chose to have our dinner in the cabin.  Silversea provides course by course dining in your stateroom from the same menu as the restaurant.  I asked for chicken broth and steamed rice and Jeff got his full dinner – everyone happy. 

Today we’re headed to Stanley on West Falkland.  Just 300 miles from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, the 2 main islands (East Falkland and West Falkland) along with about 770 smaller ones have a total land mass about the size of Connecticut. This is where all of us are anxious to see penguins all variations and sizes.  The King Penguin (usually only seen in Antarctica), Rockhoppers (with the spiked heads), Magellanic penguins and Gentoo penguins.  We got just outside Stanley Harbor and the wind started to pick up.  The ship couldn’t set the anchor to hold and after spinning around a few times, we were advised it was just too rough to tender into the harbor.  This was as close as we would get to visit the Falklands.  We took a few photos from the deck with the treeless, sloping hills in the background.  It’s very cold and very windy. I’m glad to be bundled with my new winter ski jacket, scarf, hat, gloves and hand-warmers inside the gloves.  We will be at sea another day before arriving Ushuaia also known as – “End of the World”.