Cape Horn!

On the 10^th we reached our southernmost point… Cape Horn!

We’d been warned to expect bad weather, but woke to a spectacular day.  

(The narrator said of his 100 trips around the horn, this was one of the best!)

We circumnavigated the Isla del Horno (Cape Horn Island), seeing spectacular cliffs and natural sculptures on the north side before passing south of the 1500-foot peak that officially is the horn.  

north end of island

old salt checks out the horn

Here’s the photographic proof of us at that moment, crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

rounding the Horn

There is a marker on the east side of the island.  It is called the Albatross Monument.  

One of the Antarctic cruise ships was near the island, and as we were looking at the monument, it took us a minute to realize that all the specks of orange we were seeing were the passengers from that ship climbing the hill to the monument.  (That ship was smaller and could get close enough to launch boats and take people to the island… we just sailed around the horn.)