Landing on Cape Horn: an Exceptional Day

Morning: we arrive at Cape Horn. The ocean is calm, where so many ships have been tossed and wrecked.
It appears that we will be able to make a landing and climb to the Cape Horn lighthouse.

Longitude and latitude of Cape Horn.

A Zodiac carries crew members to shore to make certain that landing will be ok.

It's a wet landing, with waves, but several crew members hold each boat and help us to the dock at the end of the stairs.

And we climb the stairway on the way to the lighthouse and the monuments to sailors who have died in these waters.

The monument: the image of an albatross. More stairs to climb!

An albatross.

Cape Horn lighthouse. Inside it's warmer. A Chilean naval officer and his family live here and care for the premises.

A shelf of books inside the lighthouse. Visitors are rare.

Another monument, with the albatross monument in the background.

Once we return -- having climbed down the stairs and having ridden back
on the Zodiac -- we watch the lighthouse disappear into the distance.

The southern-most point of Cape Horn is a little beyond the lighthouse.
The waters are sufficiently calm that the captain takes the boat for a tour here.

The nautical map of the area, which I photographed on the bridge.