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#Cruise

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Mark and Marie
We took an excursion while in Ushuaia that saw us hop on a boat and head down the Beagle Channel for around three hours. During this time we were treated to majestic views of the surrounding landscapes - particularly the impressive Martial Mountains - and got up to a sea lion colony, getting as far as the Les Eclaireurs lighthouse before heading back. It was bitterly cold but beautiful.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Ushuaia #Argentina #Mountains #Lighthouse #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Cruise #LesEclaireurs #BeagleChannel
We're on water, on a small boat just off a rocky islet in a dark, choppy sea of other small rocky islets under a sky with a few patches of pale blue sky peeking through the bubbling, rain-filled clouds above. The horizon shows a chain of mountains along the coast, jagged with icy tops and deep shadows in the clefts. The islets are devoid of any vegetation with pale, rough rocky tops becoming dark brown, perhaps clogged with seaweed along the water line. Atop the islet in front of us there is a lighthouse. It's a simple, slightly tapered cylinder with the lamp housing at the very top protected by a railing. The lighthouse is split into three even bands of red top and bottom with white in the middle.
#beaglechannel
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Jay Africa

Another D20 Cruise under the belt! I had a great time at sea, catching up with friends, making new ones, and seeing new places. I've been back on land a couple of days now and am catching up with posts.
Thanks so much to Event.Cruises for having me aboard. D20 Cruise is an awesome time, and I'd love to see you at next year's sailing! Interested, stay tuned for my referral code and discounted tickets.
#d20cruise #dnd #d20 #tabletop #rpg #dmlife #gaming #cruise #royalcaribbean #voyageroftheseas

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Mark and Marie
We had another sea day after the Falklands during which we cruised out and around the southernmost part of Cape Horn, a very grey and rainy day sadly devoid of the fierce seas we'd been looking forward to. The following day brought us to the Argentinian port of Ushuaia. It remains to this day the most awe-inspiring view to wake up to we've experienced, with a ring of jagged mountains shadowing the small city and everything brightening up slowly as the sun rose, bringing more and more detail to the incredible, natural surroundings.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Ushuaia #Argentina #MartialMountains #Mountains #MountainsMonday #Cruise #LandscapePhotography #Landscape
We're on the balcony of a cruise ship in the early hours of the morning docked at a port. The sun is rising but it's behind a ring of mountains surrounding the port so everything is dark with a thick, cloudy sky and mountain range tinged dark blue. The mountains form a long band from halfway up to about three quarters of the way up the view with one individual peak to the right but the rest largely straight with sharp edges. There is some snow packed in clefts and valleys but the majority of the mountainscape is dark rock. Nestled in the darkness of the base of the mountains and sprawling forwards towards the dock out of view below us there is a city of mostly low buildings with occasional apartment blocks of a few more storeys in height amongst them. Street lights and that of some vehicles out at this time glow orange with the warm colours contrasting with the cool ones prevalent in the upper half of the shot.
#landscape
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WiredForFlight

Sent off the email to our travel agent for a 2026 late winter #cruise 🚢

Went with one that had a large number of sea days to port days. With these larger Celebrity Edge class ships we really want to spend more time on ship vs ports.

This will make two for 2026 both heading to places we have not been before. *crosses fingers*

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Mark and Marie
We had another sea day after visiting the penguins at the nature reserve in Argentina's Punta Tombo and then we arrived at the Falkland Islands. We'd been warned beforehand that getting off the ship at the Falklands wasn't always possible because of the weather conditions but we were lucky enough to arrive on a gloriously sunny day.

After tendering ashore we headed off on an excursion of several hours visiting the battlefield locations from the 1982 Falklands War. Being from Portsmouth we both had memories of being in the crowds when the task force left and returned to the city, and a friend's dad served on HMS Hermes at the time.

The tour had several stops for photos and chats about battles, military attitudes, and anecdotes from our sarcastic guide (most of which went over the heads of the Americans on the tour) and we visited Estancia, Mount Kent, and Mount Harriet.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Cruise #Falklands #FalklandIslands #FalklandsWar #Landscape #LandscapePhotography
We're off to one side of a rough, narrow road that winds from our left ahead of us to the right then curves back on itself and up over a rise on the left side where it disappears. The landscape here is one of low, gentle hills and it feels very dry. The road is a coarse route of crushed stone and gravel. The land is a mix of sandy-coloured soil and stone with tufts of dry grass, mostly in yellows and browns but with some greenery near the road verges. Overhead the sky is clear blue, feeling cool, but a mass of bubbling white cloud builds over the hilltop line towards the horizon.
#landscapephotography
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Mark and Marie
After Uruguay we had a sea day on Star Princess heading south along Argentina's coast before docking at Puerto Madryn. We took an excursion that involved a two-hour bus ride through Patagonia - which was incredibly, incredibly dull - before arriving at the Punta Tombo nature reserve. Here we saw hundreds of Magellanic Penguins in the wild with plenty of chicks still retaining some of the soft brown feathers of youth, and it's where we learned that the sound of a penguin shouting is indistinguishable from that of a donkey braying. We were also fortunate enough to spot guanacos in the area which with vicuñas are the only wild species of camelid in South America, the llamas and alpacas being domesticated.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Argentina #PuntaTombo #Penguin #Penguins #MagellanicPenguin #Nature #NaturePhotography #Cruise
We're on mostly flat, dry ground, pebbled, with the small warm-toned stones of browns, whites, and blacks that feel like they could be part of a beach. A few growths of small bushes intrude into the scene in the background and just coming in from the right. The view is only of the ground with no other indication of what else is around but in front of us there are eight penguins. The nearest to us is in sharp focus, has flippers raised, and is leaning forward to the left with mouth open wide, apparently in mid-scream. Its black and white body still has tufts of brown feathery down on it over its back indicating its young age. Of the other penguins, two others stand while the remainder are lying down on the ground. It's possible to tell that a couple of other penguins still have their young, brown coat.
#cruise
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Mark and Marie
The main purpose of our excursion while in Uruguay in 2016 was to visit the Juanicó winery and partake in a wine-tasting. We'd reached here by steam train (see last post) and had a walk around the vineyard and cellars first, then were treated to the wine-tasting itself with some lunch.

The wine-tasting was the booziest one we've ever had. Picture five glasses for five wines. A little in glass A from the people moving table-to-table, then a little in glass B, then being asked if we liked A and wanted more so getting glass A filled to the top, then a little in glass C, then B being filled up, then a little in D, then more A and filled-up C, and we sort of lost track after that. We *think* we drank two bottles per person.

After the wine-tasting we were treated to some Uruguayan Tango, and it was fabulous. After that, though, "volunteers" were requested from the visitors to dance with the pair pictured and that's how I then ended up dancing with the woman here. Well, "dancing" to be more accurate.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Uruguay #Juanico #Tango #Dance #Cruise #ArgentineTango #WineTasting
We're in a large room with a high ceiling, well-lit by natural light. The floor is concrete inlaid with rows of bricks spaced out far apart and the far wall that we can see is red brick decorated with some large, dark, somewhat abstract paintings and wall decorations. and with a low wooden table and black leather armchairs set around it just in front. In the centre of the room, filling the view, there are two dancers performing an Argentine Tango (well, Uruguayan, really). The male is dark haired, powerfully-built, dressed all in black with loose-fitting trousers on his suit. The woman has long dark hair slicked back and pulled into a tight pony tail. She's wearing a burgundy velvet, figure-hugging dress with pink and white flowery frills. The man is thrusting forward on one bended knee, supporting the woman who is arched back over his thigh with her right leg planted and left leg raised.
#winetasting
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Mark H

Meanwhile meanwhile, I've still got seven days of annual leave to book for the year and I'm tempted by a week's cruise in July on a ship we've cruised on before, to ports in Span and Portugal we've visited before, which isn't the way we usually do things. We like new places and experiences. However, we do know someone who's got a job working on the ship as an entertainments host and feel like surprising her on her first contract.

#Travel#Cruise
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