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And we're off!
Up early with luggage packed for colledtion at 0800. Terrible weather last night (worst for 7 years they told us later). Still intermittent heavy rain and strong winds this morning. Coach came for us at 0930 for an excursion into Tierra del Fuego National Park - very scenic when you can see through the steamed up windows of the coach. I think there …
Ushuaia
We're back! After the internet cafe we wandered around town looking for a penguin for Holly's animal collection but couldn't find one we liked. Decided to have lunch in town and went into a place that did 'tenedor libre' - eat as much as you want buffet. There was a good salad bar plus hot vegetables and then you took a plate and went up for your …
Ushuaia
The next two entries are from an internet cafe in Ushuaia: Repacked and checked out. Keith hit the door with one of the suitcases as he went out and knocked a long piece of beading off it. Then he fell up the steps on the way to the car (no damage to Keith or cases!) Went down into town to reconfirm LAN flights. Rumpo Sur didn't do reconfirmations …
Back in civilisation
... penguins. That is yet another breed of penguin lol. Our lucky streak continued because at this colony we also saw a lone king penguin!! They don't nest anywhere near there but this one was just hanging out. So that was really cool. We went in search of a late dinner after the cruise got back (but 9.30pm is like peak dinner time here!) and we ended up just at a diner place and mum and I got hot dogs. She was ...
The blog post at the end of the world
... almost anywhere, some interesting birds including an elusive pair of woodpeckers, and we enjoyed our guide grumbling about the beavers which had been introduced in the 40s and had rampantly bred and are destoying swathes of woodland as they build their dams. This afternoon a few are off to the glacier, but as we will soon be seeing more ice and snow than we would ever need, I'm taking an afternoon off to do the blog housekeeping, clothes washing, etc - the glamorous part of travelling!
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