Drake to Cape Horn

Feeling fine in the morning, but sticking to the drugs just to be sure. Not much going on today – pay up your accounts, get your passport back, with Antarctica stamps in it, a movie on sailing around Cape Horn, filmed in ’29, narrated by same guy in ’80 – pretty funny, but the presentation room, with the lights dimmed, continues to put me to sleep… Looks like lots of free time today for reading/writing/listening to music. Getting kinda sad to be leaving the boat and the people met on board behind tomorrow!

First day at sea

crew says it’s pretty calm, it seems pretty rough to me. Working out at the gym in morning, maybe bad idea – not holding down lunch or dinner. Lectures on photography, geology, Shackleton, first kayak meeting. No wildlife to speak of.