Travel Friends & Friends View Antarctica 03

"The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean". Earnest Hemimgway.The Drake Passage has earned a place in history as having some of the roughest sea weather on the planet. The Drake Passage occurs where the fast flowing southern ocean waters are squeezed between the continental land masses of South America and Antarctica. Storms frequently whip the ocean into a dark grey turbulent, heaving mass of water, reknowned for sinking many a ship.On our return trip the passage proved itself worthy of its reputation. The Captain's Log showed rough seas with 24' swells and gale force winds at 34-40 knots.