Full Circle
Day 157: The Beagle Channel

It is majestic, endlessly inventive scenery - 'Nature's workshop', Darwin called it - and I stand on deck, unable to take my eyes off it, until finally driven below by the intense cold. As the sun sets so the weather begins to change. On the charts our captain shows me a short stretch of water called the Brecknock Channel where, for an hour or so, we shall be out of the cover of the islands and facing the full brunt of a Pacific storm system. He recommends we lash down the gear before we go to bed.
I insert myself into my bunk and around one o'clock we begin to feel the weather. For the next thirty or forty minutes the Pacific gives us a good thumping and I'm positively glad I have so little room in which to move.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Full Circle
- Day: 157
- Country/sea: Pacific Ocean
- Place: Brecknock Channel
- Book page no: 216
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