Full house for the tea
After leaving the Falkland Islands without being able to anchor we spent the day in heavy seas, welcome to the Atlantic!! About 1 am on the 8th we hit some very rough weather with winds in excess of 90 mph, needless to say it was a noisy, bouncy night. We had all sorts of creaking and groaning in our room even though we had stuffed some folded paper in the door. Taking a morning shower was a bit of a challenge, the shower doors are three panels that sort of overlap but can slide independently, so while in the shower the doors kept sliding open and you were standing in a couple of inches of water that kept sloshing back and forth like a tidal wave, all the time hanging on to the grab bar with one hand. We decided to have breakfast in the main dining room, Compass Rose because it is on deck five and there would not be as much movement as our usual dining choice on deck 11. While eating all of a sudden the room sort of turned dark and I thought maybe the lights had gone out- wrong! it was a huge wave that completly covered up the windows. Quite an exciting morning but by the afternoon we had sailed out of the weather system.While we were having dinner that evening in Prime 7 the captain made an announcement that we were cranking up the engines to get to the next port as soon as possible as we had another medical emergency. We arrived in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, at 1am and the patient was evacuated to a hospital (that makes 6 so far that have had to leave the ship).
Our tour today was a 1.5 hour bus ride to the town of Gaiman that was founded by people from Wales around 1860. The countryside is quite bleak with just low scrub bushes, but we did see some guanacos, which are members of the llama family. We had a Welsh tea served in a tea room that was large enough to accomodate our four busses. We were also entertained by a local choir that sang in both Welsh and Spanish. The different sweets and sandwiches were nice but it was a long ride to have tea!
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