We are still in Chile in spite of the earthquake and the resultant aftershocks. It was just over 1 week ago that Chile was hit by an 8.8 Quake which literally rocked the country. Since then, we have seEn devastated towns in the south of Chile, we have heard about 3 Tsunamis that were triggered…
It was like nothing I have ever experienced before. I don’t know what the actual time was, but I woke up to hear some dogs howling and the feeling that the room was moving, rocking from side to side. I heard a rumble in the distance, but in the dullness and thickness of the sleep…
Let me say up front, this is a long post, if you don’t have half an hour, then just scroll through the images interspersed in this post. Click on the images to see them bigger, the images in here are only a sampling of what I took, I will put them up on Flickr as…
We are back in the land of internet connectivity and places to sit down and put together some articles. We arrived in Santiago de Chile (we are in Chile now and have left Argentina) two days ago. So, I am hoping that in the next day or two I will be putting up a post…
Francis and I took a walk down to the harbour today, we heard from our travel agent that our expedition ship, the “Antarctic Dream” would be arriving this morning and would be in the harbour. It was VERY exciting to see the “Antarctic Dream” docked there, she is not a very big ship, but that…
Ushuaia has been our home for the last few days. We have had to stay longer than expected because of our trip to Antarctica. In the process we have been really just relaxing and as a result, both Francis and I have been a bit sick with a cough and a sore throat, basically a…
Ok, we took the plunge and booked our tickets today to Antarctica. We are booked to leave Ushuaia and head for Antarctica on the 8th Feb 2010 and will visit the White Continent for 11 days. We got a really good deal (relatively speaking, its very expensive to go to Antarctica) and decided to take…
El Calafate is home to the National Park of the glaciers. Located just 80km out of El Calafate, this park is home to 47 glaciers, but only 3 of them are accessible, either by boat or land. The most famous of these glaciers is the Perito Moreno glacier. We were driven up there by bus…
So, let me be honest, the idea of working on an organic farm for 2 weeks wasnt necessarily high on my list. There were a few things that concerned me, one was, the lack of meat on the menu for that time. Other than that, I wasnt overly concerned. By the end of our time…
We had a really good time at Chacra Millalen. The setting was absolutely beautiful, we were surrounded on three sides by some amazing mountains each of which was 2km high or taller. On our first night there, snow fell on the mountains overnight, so here are some of the images I captured on the days…
