Second day at sea

The second day was also very relaxed and initially unspectacular, especially since the Golfo de Penas "Gulf of Sorrows" was as calm as it has not been in years, as the captain informed. Lots of reading and the usual small talk between meals. That's where I met two Englishmen, Bob and Anthony, who have been traveling around here for a month and want to go to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost city in the world. Bob has lived in Australia for years and gave me good tips for a possible trip to Australia.

Equally interesting was the couple from Bamberg (Peter and Birgit), who travel all over South America for 3 months with a Unimog (they do this every year and the Unimog always stays in Montevideo, Uruguay during that time). Here, too, there was something exciting to hear, especially from the neighboring countries Bolivia and Argentina.

Every conversation provided new insights, outlooks, and exciting stories, my language skills were worth their weight in gold on the boat...

In addition, there were occasional glimpses, such as the shipwreck Captan Leonidas, which a captain from Uruguay ran aground in 1968 and has not moved a millimeter since then despite the wind and weather. If you look closely, you can see vegetation and birds on the wreck...

In the afternoon, the Patagonian weather showed its best side with wind and weather... and how the crew mastered the first narrow passage with a maximum width of 200 meters (that's about the width of the Main River) was astonishing... but you could see the concentration of the crew.

In the evening, I got to know more people (the lack of network makes this possible, more on that later), only to realize that the world is really small.

Among others, there was a surgeon from Weilburg who is traveling with his daughter, who lives in Ludwigshafen and knows some of the kindergartens we have built, and a Dutchman who happens to know the tour guide we had in Amsterdam 2 years ago, I was quite amazed.... El Mundo es pequeno