On a voyage from Kobe in Japan, to Rosario in Argentina, the merchant ship I was working on, passed West to East around Cape Horn. It was in June 1994, their winter but the weather was no worse than Force 7 on the Beaufort Scale, a little choppy, the sun was low in the sky and there was snow on the peaks of the mountains of Tierra del Feugo.

I had hoped to travel through the Magellan Straits instead but the shipping company would not pay the $5000 pilotage fee. Either way we had an interesting trip and it’s good to be able to say I’ve been there.