Australis

... continue to Patagonia to hike and tour in Torres del Paine National Park. A few of us will then board the beautiful "Mare Australis" ship to cruise deeper into Patagonia and around Cape Horn to the city at the ends of the earth -- Ushuaia in Argentina. I ...

... and his family live a lonely and bleak life where their only visitors are the occasional passengers of the ships of the Cruceros Australis line. Today we are blessed with weather good enough to make a visit to their island and bring with us a kind word ...

We boarded the Mare Australis at 5PM. It was a beautiful 150 passenger luxury cruise ship catering to an older clientele but we befriended a few youngsters on the cruise. One couple we met was William and Dustin. They lived in Dallas, Texas and were on ...

... met with hostility.  The abandon buildings here were once a Chilean Navy radio station and later a small estancia. Today Cruceros Australis leases the property and is restoring the main building to make it a museum. As we leave the ship dolphins ...

We thought it might be interesting to include a picture tour of our ship, the Stella Australis. So here goes....Welcome Aboard! Click on each picture for a larger version and more descriptive narrative.            ...

... were introduced to Patagonia and Punta Arenas became the major shipping point for wool bound for Europe.   Finally we board the Via Australis for our voyage to "del fin del mundo", the end of the world. The Via Australis was built in 2005, has 63 ...

... dass wir irgendwann mal wieder eine Expeditionskreuzfahrt machen werden. Immer auf einem relativ kleinen Schiff, wie die Mare Australis. Gestern endete unsere Expedition in Punta Arenas und nach ein paar Stunden in dieser nicht beeindruckenden Stadt sind ...

... , and with full bellies, we all climbed back aboard our bus for the trip to Punta Arenas to board the expedition boat, Stella Australis, which would be our base for the next four days as we traveled the inner channels of Terria del Fuego and hopefully go ...

Awesome cruise on M/V Via Australis to Ainsworth Bay, Pia Glacier, through the Beagle Channel, to Avenue of the Glaciers, to Ushuaia, Argentina (southernmost town in the ...

On day three we sailed through the Fjords. Sea lions would occasionally swim by the boat jumping and playing. We viewed a couple of glaciers. The first one was the Chico glacier. We hopped into the zodiacs and maneuvered our way through chunks of glacial ...

Today we anchored and tendered in on zodiacs to Cape Horn, the southernmost landmass of South America. It´s a small island with a lighthouse where a Chilean military officer and his wife and child live along with a statue of an albatross dedicated to ...

After leaving Pia Glacier we sail along the northwest arm of the Beagle Channel and the Avenue of the Glaciers.  Here you can see over 30 glaciers the most magnificent of which are the Spain, Romanche, Germany, Italy, France and Holland glaciers. As ...