Thursday, February 22, 2007

Beagle Channel

Did the tourist thing, as you are obliged to do from time to time and took a boat tour of the islands of the Beagle Channel, mating grounds for Commorants, Sea Lions, penguins, and other animals. I skipped the pricey los pinguinos tour and went for the standard island tour. Landed in a small boat with only 9 people on it which was really nice. This is one of the islands with the Commorants. They use feces, feathers, and sticks to build their nests which you can see in the foreground. That gives a great scent to the islands when you are downwind. We also stopped at an island where the Llamans (native people of Tierra del Fuego) lived. It was amazingly windy and unimaginable that people could live in such an environment.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home