The continent and its islands end here, marked by a lighthouse. Normally leaving our life vests in a pile on the shore, on our visit by Zodiac boats to Cape Horn we must wear them in case a quick retreat is forced by a change in the weather. And there it is, the Drake Passage. Atlantic to the left, Pacific to the right. Rain dead ahead.
The wallowing trudge up the 200 steps from the Zodiac landing and back down again had been well worth it as we looked forward to many more Zodiac excursions.
