Ashuaia, Argentina

This post begins a couple days before Ashuaia. We weren't able to stop in the Falkland Islands due to weather being to strong for tendering, so we ended up doing 4 sea days in a row.

During this time Mitzi finished this difficult and intricate quilt she had started in 2024. Amazing! She said it was the most difficult one she's done.

As we got to the southern tip of South America we finally saw land!

We were invited to a private dinner in the exclusive Privée restaurant with the Chief Purser and Executive Concierge. Oceania really knows how to put on a wonderful dining experience!

It was fun to meet the other passengers at the dinner, and I got to ask the Chief Purser questions that have been fascinating me a lot. Like how much does it cost to park the ship in a port for a day? The meal was delicious as always and the wait staff was very attentive and made the experience so pleasant.

This morning we arrived in Ashuaia, Argentina. What is called The World's End. A lot of small expedition ships port here and sail south to Antartica. That's a voyage and experience I really want to have some day. See the wildlife in the ruggedness of the place, go down in a submarine with windows and see undersea wildlife. Hop on Kodiaks and jet over to the ice and land. Sounds amazing.

There we about six ships in port today. The Seabourne Venture is a new ship from 2023 that does expeditions. That would be a dream to do a two week on that ship. Dreams and goals haha.

One thing I like about sailing is getting to see these industrial cargo ships. They are such fascinating machines. This one is relatively small, but it's also huge!

It was a good day to get out the binoculars and get some interesting pictures of things far away.

Mitzi went on an 8 mile hiking excursion into the wilderness today. That was a little too vigorous for me so I stayed in the harbor and enjoyed the port area.

Mitzi loved the hiking. It was beautiful and rugged. They hiked about 2.5 hours to a lake. Enjoyed that for a while, then hiked 2 hours back.

In the 1800's some people from Canada brought some beavers to breed them and make pelt hats and such. The problem is they reproduce so quickly they are all over building dams and stripping trees and killing them. But not even too many beavers can destroy this beautiful place!

The birds here are very colorful!

The internet is slow tonight and it's almost midnight. Took a long time to get these pictures uploaded. Mitzi fell asleep. It was an intense output day for her (she even worked out in the evening before dinner!). So that's a wrap. She'll read this in the morning and laugh 😄