Wednesday our stop was Punta Arenas, Chili.. It is located on he Strait of Magellan and has ana population of about 145,000. It is the capital of Chili's southmost region - Magallanes and Chile.
Our excursion today was "A Voyage into the Past: Magellan's Discovery" We went of an outdoor museum where replicas of a few famous ships were displayed.
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| City skyline in the early mornin |
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| The pilotr coming aboard. |
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| Approaching our dock |
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| Tugboast help push us in to the dock because of high winds |
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| Forst signs of sunrise. |
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| The city. |
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| An oil and gas off-shore drilling rig. |
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| A small Chilean Navy boat. They have the pier nest to us. |
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| The Sapphire Princess was also in port today along with the Oceana Mariana and us. |
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| The pier that we are docked on |
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| View from the front of the ship |
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| A flock of seagulls |
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| I saw 3 rainbows hee this morning |
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| Another Soutgern Giant Petrel. |
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| On port days, the crew often has a practice safety grill. This is the lead bartender at the Sea View bar that I frequent.. He is the head of this lifeboat station team |
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| Near an off-shiore supply boat at the nxct pier, Divers working at the back of the ship |
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| Passengers boarding a shuttle bus going to the town square |
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| They wash the outside Lido DEck windows occasionally |
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| Aboard the replica of one of Ferdinand Magellan's ships - Victoria - that was the first to sail around the world. |
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| Magellan's route |
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| The to Ms Beagle that naturalist Charles Darwin used |
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| The lifeboat used by Sir Ernst Shackleton whos sailed it 800 miles to South Georgia Island to seek help to rescue his trapped in ice Endurance in 1916 |
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| A photo op setting |
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| Back on our bus |
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| We then went to a small Natural History museum |
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| Some of the wildlife of the region |
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| A condor |
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| A Rhea |
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| $ kinds of small penguins |
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| The 2 large penguins |
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| And the giftshop |
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| View of the city from a lookout. Our ship could not be seen from here. |
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| Ferdinand Magellan statue in the main city square |
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| There was a festival going on. A local dance school performance |
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| The city square |
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| A mural seen on the way back to the ship |
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| Where we were |
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| Back at the ship, the theme of the evening was "One Enchanted Evening". |
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| The penguins from the pool moved |
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| Sailng away for Punta Arenas |
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| This was the last I saw of the sun tonight |
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