We made it back to South America today! As we approached the Beagle Channel, there was a call on the intercom about someone seeing whales breaching so we all raced to the deck. Someone else said they also saw dolphins jumping out of the water, but they were all too far away to see anything or I missed it. There were dozens of Albatross birds flying all around the ship though. It was quite windy but they just soared through the air without even needing to flap their wings. They were clearly enjoying it.

As we got into the channel, a ship’s pilot from Ushuaia joined up with us and climbed on board to navigate through the channel. This meant that the bridge was closed to guests so we watched from the decks. As we approached the port, I joked that the captain was going to pull a move out of the Fast and the Furious with spinning the ship around and sliding into the pier. While not quite that fast, he did basically parallel park the giant 124-meter long ship in between two other ships…in reverse. It was impressive to watch.

We had our wrap-up ceremony where we got to see some of the amazing photos from photo guides Kyle and Sam, then we headed into town just for a little bit to stretch our legs. We got back on board and closed the night out in the ship’s bar.