Sailing in Magellan’s Wake in Patagonia

I know my Bucket List is a little out of control. But that doesn’t mean I don’t still approach each new experience with a huge sense of enthusiasm and anticipation.

The first part of 2016 was particularly good for ticking items off my Bucket List. I got to witness dawn off Cape Horn. I attended to the 100^th running of the Indy 500. I went horse trekking in the Andes. I looked down on London from the top of the Shard. I completed my goal of visiting all six accessible Hawaiian islands. And so much more.

All that being said, one of the real highlights was sailing the Strait of Magellan in Patagonia. The landscape is bleak and breathtaking. And the sight of the southern sun shimmering on the water or a rainbow is simply mesmerising.

The Strait of Magellan is named after the Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, who discovered the waterway almost 500 years ago, in 1520.

Shipwreck of the Santa Leonora, which ran aground in March 1968

Storm coming

Sailing the Strait of Magellan properly!

Blue skies and rainbows

While separating Tierra del Fuego from mainland Chile, the 354-mile-long Strait connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Until the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, it provided the main shipping route between the two oceans.

This post was inspired by the photo themes of Enthusiasm and Anticipation from The Daily Post, Shimmer from Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack? together with Cee’s Which Way Challenge.

Moonlight on the Strait of Magellan

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