Punta Arenas, Chile February 12

We arrived at Punta Arenas early in the morning.  Since we had done the highlights tour here before we decided to just take the shuttle bus into the main square.  The bus was packed and it was obvious that a lot of passengers were not on the tours.  The highlights tour was the only one that was free and the paid ones basically did the highlights tour with one additional item.  Our shuttle bus was packed and when we took the return shuttle the one that was dropping off was also packed.

Punta Arenas is supposed to mean "Sandy Point", but Tom thinks it means "colder than other places".  Down jackets, turtle necks, stocking caps and gloves were the order of the day.  Good thing it is summer here.

Some of the vendor stalls were cute little wagons 

With all the Brits off the Queen Mary it was hard to look at the merchandise

Touching the foot of the statue is supposed to bring good luck.  We took a picture of  Noel here on the 2012 cruise. Tom thinks the same dog was lying here then too!














The Queen Mary arrived in port just after we arrived.  Nothing better than three thousand Brits running around.

The Queen Mary at anchor















We had dinner in the main dining room "Compass Rose", where a waiter accidentally knocked over a glass of red wine on Tom.

We had some very rough water for a short while during the night when we had to make a run out into the open ocean before entering the "Beagle Channel".  It woke Noel up as the shower doors were sliding back and forth and other things in the room were banging around. Tom managed to sleep though it all.