Hostal Del Bosque Ushuaia

... t know what the situation is with the boat’s internet, but if you haven’t heard from me in the next 48hrs, assume I won’t be updating for a while. I’ll still be on email if you want me (suzloua@gmail.com) and if I can get on Twitter, I’ll be microblogging my minute observations (www.twitter.com/suzloua). Enjoy your Novembers, and just in case I don’t see you, good afternoon good evening and goodnight.

... of hiring a guide but this time it was more straight forward, the paths were clearly marked and though the weather was more British, wet and windy, it was still fantastic. It was more what we were expecting, bleak and harsh landscape with unrelenting winds and even some snow. I`m still shocked it`s not colder though, apparently in northern Canada it`s about minus 30 in winter time! Took the obligatory picture in front of the sign for the end of the ...

... nature with lovely scenary. At Lapataia bay, road 3 ends and so does the transamerica highway from Alaska, some 18000 km further north! Not far from that point, there is also a small post office where you can send postcards or stamp your passport with the "Fin del Mundo" stamp. Today, we took a small boat (12 seater) to cruise on the Beagle Channel, named after Charles Darwin ship who ...

... find nothing there. Probably because they were all enjoying their afternoons in some sunny corner of the landfill I could not reach. I thereby conclude, beyond the smallest percentile of a doubt, that not only are dumps marvelous places to spend a few hours, but they are also signifcantly more important in conserving biodiversity than, say, a nice riparian stretch of river, or old-growth forest.

... is a section called the devils throat where there's about a million waterfalls all converging into the one to create the devils throat. (I may have overestimated the exact number..) It looks pretty cool though. I went up in a helicopter and got to see it from birds eye view, and it is pretty impressive. Still on the Brazil side, we then went to this bird park where we got to touch Toucans, and Macaws, and other random birds. I was a little scared of the Toucans beaks though ...

... offices. Our favourite spot outdoors during the Drake crossing days was just outside the offices on Deck 6, facing the stern. Great for bird-viewing and staying out of the high winds. Then, above that, the flying bridge. From outside, especially in low twilight, when the lights come on, it is a very pretty vessel, very appealing and welcoming.<br><br>Also: should mention the dramatis personae: Howard, expedition leader; Susie, naturalist; Tony, divemaster; and Penni, AEL. All in all, a good group.

Its been totally a fabulous cruise to Antacrtica, The weather was super fine, We made 9 zodiac landing compaered to the normal 4 or 5!!!!, We saw whales , so many penguins you could never count them as many as maybe 6000 on one landing, numerouse species of birds, and 3 species of seals, We who did the polar plunge got a certicicate of our nutty achievemnent. It was so cold I really dont have a recollection ...

... nur für eine kurze Strecke. Danach hiess es wied** laufen, dann hat mich wied** jemand für eine kurze Strecke mitgenommen, dann wied** laufen und wied** mitfahren. Um sechs Uhr Abends habe ich dann die Grenze zum chilenischen Teil von Feu**land **reicht, ich also etwa in d** hälfte vom Weg nach Punta Arenas. Um acht Uhr habe ich einen argentinischen Lastwagenfahr** gefunden, d** mich ein Stück mitnimmt. Um drei Uhr morgens haben wir die Magellanstrasse (Me**strasse zwischen dem ...

... witch of the following pressured issues I should first attend - my encrusted and painful bloody bleeding nose or the immediate urge of throwing up... But let me tell you how it all begun. It seems we left Santiago Chile ages ago, but most likely it's only 3 days since then. We were hauled out of the hotel at an inhumane early hour of 3am and transferred to the airport. From there we took a 5 hour charter flight to Ushuaia in Terra de Fuego, in Argentina ...

... higher and see something that resembled a glacier, but to us it looked like spring snow. Fun walk, nice views, not very glacial like though. :) On the way down the wind really picked up, so much so that when big guts came, we had to sit down and huddle up to prevent it from blowing us down. Never experienced such strong winds. And it was picking up sand and small rocks. Even though ...