DAY-15: Fjords & Glaciers of Chile

DAY-15: Fjords & Glaciers of Chile

Day – 15: Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Starting Location: At Sea Aboard the M.S. Marina
Ending Location: At Sea Aboard the M.S. Marina

Overnight the ship moved from the tight channels and straits contiguous with the Southern Ocean into the open Pacific Ocean for a "peaceful" night's ride and easier overnight navigation for the ship.
I attended an "Enrichment" lecture this morning on what I thought to be the "Geologic" history (rocks) of Patagonia, the southernmost areas of Chile & Argentina. The lecture actually was about other "logics", the "Archeologic"and "Anthropologic" history of the region. For most of us the history of peoples takes somewhat of a mental leap; that said,  I can understand the traces of people being linked together in this case over 20,000 years as civilization moved from northeastern Asia across the land bridge into what we now know as the Americas. We travel these distances in hours and days whereas migrating civilizations took millennia to traverse the continents.



After the morning's lecture I returned to the room, went out and walked a bit and then had a helium teleconference at noon.  Sheila had played bridge and attended an Oceania presentation pitching all of their future sailings; best I can tell we came out of that unscathed!

It's quiet day out on deck.






For the afternoon activity we attended another wine tasting, this time entitled "Classic European Wine Tasting"; five red wines from Italy, France & Portugal.
BEFORE
AFTER
I still don't get the science or maybe art of wine tasting, e.g. light body - heavy body,  a pleasant nose of hazel nuts, cherries or as the fellow behind me said "bacon" with a hint of peanut butter. The wines were generally good but not something we would likely buy, especially at shipboard prices. The basics of wine as I see it:
  • If you can see through the wine it is WHITE
  • If you can't see through the wine it is RED



We encountered some rain today, and winds have picked up as we progressed up the Chilean inner passage. Hopefully we'll have an improvement in weather before tomorrow's tours.

Dinner for tonight was in the "Frenchy" restaurant Jacques, named after the Oceania Cruise Lines executive chef Jacques Pepin. This seems to be the favorite restaurant of our fellow cruisers, the most difficult to get into but Ismial has proven to be a master of securing reservations.

Didn't stay up late as tomorrow will be an early rise, long day on the water, in the air and on the road.

Here are few other pictures from the day.



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