Puerto Chacabuco, Chile February 9

Our port for today is Puerto Chacabuco, Chile, or Port Chewbaca as Tom calls it.  This is where we start our cruise through the Chilean Fjords which is one of the most remote and beautiful places in the world.  It will be around 1000 miles before we reach our next port, Punta Arenas.

Due to a medical evacuation last night in Puerto Montt we left there almost two hours late.  All the days tours have been moved back and our tour was rescheduled to leave at 3 pm which would have not gotten us back to the ship until around 6 pm.  This would have really cut into Tom's cocktail hour (and since we had been here before) we turned in our tour tickets and stayed on board for the afternoon.  We tied for first in trivia, mostly because so few passengers were there!

There was a very nice event at 10 am for the passengers of gold level or above that featured the ballroom dancers performing latin dances.

The dancers performing a tango 

There was a beautiful background photo of Buenos Aires behind the band

The female ballroom dancer Tatiana














When we arrived in Chacabuco there was a small Princess ship already anchored in the small harbor. We had not seen many other cruise ships after leaving the Caribbean.

The fjords have a lot of these fish farms.  They raise mostly salmon 

There were a number of waterfalls 

These peaks had been under cloud cover all day and this was a beautiful view just before sunset














One highlight of the day was for the first time they had sliced mangoes on the buffet at breakfast, yum!!