Brazil ✅ Next up Uruguay

Spent a full day at sea travelling down the east coast of Brazil passing what seemed like endless miles of beautiful white sandy uninhabited beaches backed by green jungle disappearing into the far distance.

Pitched up mid morning in Montevideo, Uruguay for a port call. Because the cruise ship terminal is so close to the old city downtown area we opted just to walk off the ship and putter around and see what we could find.

Even before leaving the dock area, there was a reminder of the 1939 German Navy Admiral Graf Spee battle cruiser incident . . . “The Battle of the River Platte”

They retrieved the optical rangefinder from the scuttled German navy ship and it is on display at the dock exit area. For the curious . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Riv…

Although we arrived through some nasty offshore squalls, things developed into a very toasty and very sunny day and after exploring for awhile we were back on board, hot and thirsty, for lunch by two. Nancy got a little pool time in and we had a relaxed afternoon.

The port of Montevideo is a staging area for the summer Antarctica resupply season and we saw a number of specialized ships taking on cargoes before heading south to restock various research stations as soon as the Antarctic ice breaks up a bit later in the southern hemisphere’s summer.Read more