Approaching the Beagle Channel

January 28, 1994

11:55am

We are just about to enter the Beagle Channel finally (I thought we already had, but there's another name for the channel we were sailing earlier.)

The Andes mountains, approaching the Beagle Channel, early morning

I'm going to go walking the decks now, since the Beagle Channel is supposed to be spectacular. However, we seem to be in some fog now.

Earlier this morning (around 6:30am) we awoke because the ship began rolling quite a bit. (It was very stable last night.) We had entered the channel, but the wider areas caused the ship to roll heavily. We went back to sleep, and then things calmed down until a little later (around 7:30am). That's when I took the final pictures on the film roll before the introductions.

I dreamed in the early morning that I was on the Marco Polo, and that we were sailing through the streets of a town that had been flooded. The water was impossibly shallow for a ship this size, but it was rocking back and forth just like the ship is in reality. The rolling motion of the ship has clearly influenced my dreams.

I'm not at all seasick, although I understand now why some people would be. I find the rolling motion soothing, and only a little difficult to navigate through.


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