Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego and the Beagle Channel

Trip Start Feb 03, 2006
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Trip End May 09, 2006


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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

MILES: flying 8517, bus 300, taxi 43, walking 62, ship 7820, Zodiac boat 20
total: 16,761 miles

Visited Tierra del Fuego National Park about 10 miles from Ushuaia in Argentina. There is one road in, at the very southern tip of the park, which we were on. Gravel of course. It is the end of Argentina, and the end of one of their major highways. As a sign in the park says, it is 17,000 km from Alaska...or about 11,500 miles.

The town of Ushuaia was very nice, but only had about an hour to run through it quickly.

The highlight of the day was heading out into the Beagle Channel, named after the HMS Beagle, the ship that Darwin sailed on his big adventures. My photographs do not do it justice, but the mountains and glaciers we sailed through were magnificent. Sometime during the night we will be in the Straits of Magellan sailing north to Punta Arenas in Chile. Goodbye Argentina....
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