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The cruise itself.

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Our route. Map courtesy of NCL.com The one and only towel creation that ever manifest itself in our room. Other guests ended up with entire menageries. Passing through the Patagonic Channels. The first of many glaciers. Cruising through the Beagle Channel, something I would later do in a tour boat like the one pictured. The legendary Cape Horn. On the day we rounded Cape Horn, we had a ceremony where the Captain baptised us as honorary "Horneans" with ice cold water. Why I agreed to participate, I have no clue. Our room was an inside cabin, therefore channel 22, showing the view from a mounted camera became our official "window". Yup, I agreed to pour champagne into a pyramid of glasses aboard a moving ship. Not sure what I was thinking there, either. I can see how it is possible to interpret my running tally, where I am keeping score pitting myself against NCL when it comes to shore excursions, a