Hello from the southernmost city in the world!

We arrived here in Ushuaia and were ecstatic to hear that our booking company found us another Antarctica cruise. This was extremely exciting news, especially since our new cruise runs close to the same days as our original one. Our new ship is named the Ushuaia (creative, huh) and it’s a smaller boat, with a capacity of 88. But we’re still embarking/disembarking from Ushuaia, still going for ten days, and most importantly still planning for lots of penguins.

The city of Ushuaia is a small, peaceful town and a nice change from the big cities we’ve already been on this trip. Its main role is to act as the key access point for the South Atlantic and Antarctica. Here is a view of part of the port, at 11pm. Incidentally it stays light outside until about 11:30pm, which confuses my simple mind.

Looking down on the town during the day:

Because Ushuaia is the southernmost city in the world, there are many other records being set here on a daily basis. Here is a sampling.

This is the southernmost beer produced in the world:

This is the southernmost Goodyear shop in the world:

This is the southernmost haircut in the world:

This is the southernmost restaurant sign insulting your mother in the world:

And this is the southernmost conversation with a penguin in the world:

It certainly is exciting to witness such milestones.

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(To anyone at a certain southern California cath conference…you’re welcome.)

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OK peoples, I’m off to Antarctica tomorrow. There is no internet aboard the ship, so I’ll talk to you if/when I return!