Already at 4 am I was feeling the intensive rocking of the ship. Sunrise was before 7 am. I went out to the deck at 8. Not easy task! Extremely strong wind was blowing from the opposite direction pressing on the door! It was cloudy and foggy. On the starboard side I saw few little, rocky islands.
But the Hornos Island was still ahead of us in the thick mist. We were approaching it from the east.
My fellows were dissappointed. Not me… I expected such a weather… You must be really lucky to see the sun over Cape Horn. I was lucky 16 years ago cominng back from Antarctic Peninsula so I do not cry 🙂
Our Italian captain trying to improove his dirty image declared to sail around the Isla Hornos
expecting that visibility from the other side will be better. We turned north – as a result
ship leanned down and quite a lot of water from the pool covered the ship’s internal promenade floor. Wow!
But this took only few minutes.
Then at the northwest corner of the Hornos Island I saw in the mist few nice rocky pinacles…
Soon we made a loop, turning back to the southern cape of the island – the real Cabo de Hornos.
But visibility here was poor too… For a few seconds I saw in the mist the lightouse and Chilean flag, and the
monument of albatross. End… Everybody saw legendary Horn, and now we are sailing north – to
the warmer places.
