Heading south

Trip Start Feb 10, 2006
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Trip End Feb 01, 2007


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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Braved the rain and set out on the speedy little local bus to Castro...more rain, more drunks in doorways, more beautiful boats bobbing in the bay and, something new!  Palafitos are little houses built on stilts at the edge of the sea.  So you can pull your car up at the front door and your boat up at the back!  Very very pretty, and all painted different colours with different patterns of shingles.  Love the originality. 
Castro has a cracking church - huge!  And. up until recently, the most lurid paint job on the island (salmon with a Violet trim) although it is very much faded now. The churches are all different but in the same wooden style with high towers but no bells.  You can never be in any doubt when itīs midday though - all those air-raid warning alarms from the 1940īs appear to have been put to good use here and you get a heck of a shock each day at 12! 
Took another bus out from Castro to the little town of Chonchi.  More boats, shingles, drunks and a wee church.  Pottered a bit, filled up more memory card in the camera and caught the next bus back to Castro.  Love this place! 
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