We enjoy two sea days sailing from Cape Horn to the Sarmiento Canal, whose picture I posted on the previous blog. Today, the Zaandam takes another detour from the Darwin Passage to sail up and then back down a typical Chilean fjord.

14 December 2018
Sailing Through Chilean Fjords

I am somewhat disappointed today as we sail into Chile's Fjordland.  The sea passage is not as breathtakingly narrow as the fjords of Norway and New Zealand, and today's cliffs lack the marvelous shapes hallowed out during the mega-millions of years by slow-moving glaciers.  The day is overcast, so there is a dull patina on all the surrounding hills and mountains.  There are, of course, snow-covered peaks in the distance (as there are all over Chile).  A little bit of sunshine might make me more susceptible to the beauty of the surroundings.  And I am sure that if had never been to Greenland, Alaska, and Norway, I would be swooning over today's scenes.  But I am allowed one day to be a curmudgeon.

And here are pictures of the fjord, so judge for yourself:

As we sail back into the Pacific Ocean to head north to Porte Montt, our final port prior to disembarkation in San Antonio, we are gifted with a magnificent view of one of the 50 volcanoes that parade up the length of Chile's Pacific Coastal Andes.

I will provide another blog entry to cover Porte Montt and the Lakeland area of Chile.