Well, we arrived in the anchorage area for Port Stanley, the Falkland Islands, early this morning but the winds were 40 knots and the ship's anchor would not hold the ship. The winds were pushing the ship towards shore dragging the anchor on the sandy bottom. The Captain pulled up the anchor and went back out to open ocean for an hour then came back in and dropped anchor again but it still would not hold. So we are missing this port and now at sea heading to our next port. We will be at sea again tomorrow before arriving in Puerto Madryn on the coast of Argentina on Thursday.
So far the Atlantic Ocean is not as rough as we were experiencing yesterday. Also we do not need to go as fast as normal so that helps the ride. We have both just finished exercising and are showered and ready to go up for some lunch. This afternoon we will go to another of Terry Breen's lectures. This one is "Argentina, Land of the Gaucho".
We had some very good sea bass for dinner last night. We dined with a couple from Dallas and Jeanette had requested the chef make us a strawberry-rhubarb pie for dessert. I actually liked it! Tonight I am looking forward to some soft shell crabs again. We want to see tonight's show also. Jeri Sager has performed in the Broadway shows: Evita and Cats.
Only 40 days left on this cruise. It is going way too fast.
