On Saturday, 14 hours of driving, including 100km that took about 4 hours as it was so rough took us from Ushuaia, Argentina across Tierra del Fuego to Punta Arenas, Chile. It was a pretty boring drive, luckily I had bought yarn before we left and was able to knit an entire baby's vest during the trip.
We had six stops for the day, a bakery while the truck was fuelled up, Argentinean immigration and then twenty minutes later Chilean immigration, a very quick stop for our tinned lunch to be prepared (we ate as the bus drove on), a toilet stop by a ditch and then to see a shipwreck when we were almost in Punta Arenas.
The highlight of the day was seeing baby Commerson's Dolphins during the twenty minute ferry crossing of the Magellan Strait.
We had two nights in Punta Arenas as we were meant to go penguin watching but the penguins haven't arrived for the breeding season yet. This is a concern as they should have arrived a month ago and started breeding immediately.
Punta Arenas is a pretty port city, it's Antarctic offices reminded me of Hobart.
Today was a five hour drive to Puerto Natales ready to head into Torres Del Paine National Park early tomorrow morning. We did have a forty minute detour tod, one of my fellow travellers left his jacket in the hotel and realised twenty minutes out of town as we were discussing my new jacket (purchased yesterday in the duty free mall).
We had six stops for the day, a bakery while the truck was fuelled up, Argentinean immigration and then twenty minutes later Chilean immigration, a very quick stop for our tinned lunch to be prepared (we ate as the bus drove on), a toilet stop by a ditch and then to see a shipwreck when we were almost in Punta Arenas.
The highlight of the day was seeing baby Commerson's Dolphins during the twenty minute ferry crossing of the Magellan Strait.
We had two nights in Punta Arenas as we were meant to go penguin watching but the penguins haven't arrived for the breeding season yet. This is a concern as they should have arrived a month ago and started breeding immediately.
Punta Arenas is a pretty port city, it's Antarctic offices reminded me of Hobart.
Today was a five hour drive to Puerto Natales ready to head into Torres Del Paine National Park early tomorrow morning. We did have a forty minute detour tod, one of my fellow travellers left his jacket in the hotel and realised twenty minutes out of town as we were discussing my new jacket (purchased yesterday in the duty free mall).
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