When I woke up my knee was still causing me grief, so I cancelled a trip to see the National Park which is just out of town. After packing up my bags I spent the day resting my knee and reading in the hotel lounge. We were picked up by bus about 3 pm in the arvo and taken to the meeting point just outside the docks where we met up with everyone else and then got bussed into dock area and taken to the ship - Ocean Diamond. Once on board we were shown to our cabins (mine was on the lowest passenger deck - Deck 3) where we could unpack our gear. We had a safety talk and lifeboat drill before we were able to leave the dock. They had to try a couple of times to get out from the dock as the prevailing wind just kept blowing the ship back onto the dock.
We were finally underway at about 18:30 and sailed smoothly out through the Beagle Canal. At this stage I had taken my first Kwell tablet, just to be sure. We had a nice dinner and after chatting with the rest of the photogr aphy people we all had a reasonably early night in bed. Sometime in the evening we would hit the rougher section of sea which is the Drake Passage.
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