Archive for the 'South America 2008' Category

A very early start this morning - we had to be up and in the sky lounge by 7am ready with our life jackets and gear for our excursion to Cape Horn. This was the highlight of the trip and we were all eagerly waiting for the chance to visit the “end of the world”. [...]

Woke a bit later this morning - just before breakfast at 8am, and were delighted to see a dolphin swimming alongside the boat just outside our cabin window - the water was so clear, we could even see him when underwater! The rain had stopped and it looked like we might be able to spend some [...]

Day 2 of our cruise - up early for an 8am breakfast - full hot buffet complete with scrambled eggs and bacon - pity the bacon was very salty … we’ve noticed that a lot of the food here has a lot of salt.
The weather had turned wet and miserable so we couldn’t really see much [...]

We got up, had breakfast and packed our bags in no great hurry this morning. We had to check out by 10am but our boat didn’t board until late in the afternoon, so we sat around in the hostel dining room working on photos from the Navimag trip and uploading them to the blog. We went out for lunch, posted some [...]

We’re about to go offline again for a few days while on our second long cruise for the trip - Punta Arenas to Ushuaia via the Beagle Channel and Cape Horn.
Should be back online on Monday or Tuesday next week.
In the meantime, I’ve uploaded photos for our Navimag trip:

Day 17 - Puerto Montt and [...]

Had a lazy day today - didn’t feel like doing much and decided not to do any other tours. It was a horrible cold and windy day - Punta Arenas is known for its strong winds (the symbol of the town seems to be a windblown tree!).
We did go for a walk around the town a [...]

Up early this morning so we could get to the office of the tourism operator by 6:50am ready for our tour to Magdalena island.
They put us all into two minibuses and drove us to 30 minutes out of town to a small port where two large Zodiacs were waiting for us.
We put on our life jackets and boarded the larger of [...]

Up in time to get breakfast this morning - not too early. Breakfast was cereal and toast - nothing special, but does the job.
After breakfast we headed out for a walk along waterfront to the port area to see if we could work out where our cruise would be leaving from on Wednesday.
We stopped at a supermarket [...]

Up rather late this morning - our bus wasn’t until 1pm, so we were able to take our time getting ready. Very nice to sleep in a bit! We eventually got up at 9am and headed for breakfast and then showered and started packing. Leanne went to collect the clothes (1500 pesos per kg - [...]

Up early to finish packing, have a quick breakfast and then wait for our Remise (taxi) to the bus station. The bus left just after 8:30am and we both had a snooze as we drove across the barren plains of the Pampas.
I woke up as we turned off earlier than I expected and turned down [...]