Caleta Margarita
by Kate Laird

Seal is anchored tonight in a calm bay, Caleta Margarita, in the east end of the Beagle Channel off Navarino Island. Today is the second day of excellent weather and the second stop as we get used to the sailing routine. Preparations for passing Cape Horn and on to Crossing the Drake Passage are now complete. The windows are battened down (the glass windows are covered with lexan doubler windows) and the emergency briefing is finished. No one seasick yet...so far. The sail from Puerto Williams today could not have been better. Smooth waters, little tide against us, bright sunshine and a steady N - NW wind that gradually headed us as we approached the end of the Beagle Canal.

The weather south of Cape Horn tonight is forecast to be forty to fifty knots with gusts to ninety knots, so we will wait for it to calm down. Tomorrow is expected to be better, with the weather increasing as we get closer to the Antarctic Peninsula.

To date, we have seen penguins, seals, cormorants, black browed albatross, giant petrels, kelp geese and rainbows. (posted by guests Sheila and Tony)

For more about Seal see http://www.expeditionsail.com.