This was not the Day we planned!!

We had a tour on a catamaran to travel around the southern most lighthouse and all of that changed with an early morning announcement from the captain. The Argentinean government decided to deny the Star Princess clearance to dock. It seems as if all of this saber rattling between The United Kingdom and Argentina caught us in the fall out. It could have been worse. If something had kept us out of Stanley and I was not able to see the penguins you would have heard the crying and gnashing of teeth all of the way to Abbotsford.:-) We were disappointed for ourselves but it is so sad because this is the last ship of the season and I am certain that the local merchants of Ushuaia were counting on the income the passengers of the Star would have generated. Everyone I spoke to planned to shop there and instead they will shop in Punta Arenas, Chile tomorrow. The plan was to quickly sail through Glacier Alley tonight and instead we had a wonderful leisurely sail by.The weather was grand,it was sunny and the glaciers just shone in the sun and the sea was so very calm. It looked very much like Alaska. We saw a melting glacier and got some of the most amazing photographs. We had a wonderful relaxing day and tomorrow we have a Princess tour and we will have lots of time to shop and se the area after our tour ends. This is a tender port so I hope the sea is as calm as it was in Stanley.