Pto. Williams from Cerro Bandera
A chilly campsite
Seals and cormorants
Ushuaia from above
Autumn colours
Well, the 5-day trek didn't quite go as planned - for the first time in 8 months, the weather did not co-operate. We took a very small boat (6 passengers) across to Puerto Williams over an uncharacteristically calm Beagle Channel. A real highlight was a short detour past the Isla de los Lobos, a seal colony - it was so lovely to see them in their natural habitat, all lounging about in the sun and seemingly unconcerned by our presence.
We started the trek the same day and reached the first camping spot at dusk - so far so good, lovely clear skies and splendid isolation. But then we were woken in the small hours by the unmistakable sound of snowflakes brushing against the tent - a very wintry scene greeted us at breakfast! Given the remoteness of the trek, the challenging terrain and potential route-finding difficulties, we decided to go down instead of go on and thankfully there was an easier valley route back to the town.
We then ended up stranded in a B&B for 2 days waiting for the boat back to Ushuaia and spent our time huddled round the wood-burning stove, watching the incessant rain, sleet, hail and snow. There´s not a lot going on in Puerto Williams so it was quite a relief to get back to the relatively urban and civilised Ushuaia. And it´s still snowing so we´re just going to do a couple of day walks before flying to the capital on Monday. We are prepared for the culture shock and looking forward to an increase in temperature of about 20 degrees.
2 comments:
Hi there!
Thanks for your message! What an amazing story about the end of the world...I can totally imagine you didn´t want to continue the trip...
Temperatures have dropped in BA aswell since we landed here, but it´s still much better than in Ushuaia :)
We hope your appartment will be nice, sounds great at least!
We really enjoy BA, it looks like Paris but prices are much lower so we´re really enjoying all the good things the city has to offer!
We met Dave and Markus to have dinner one night aswell.
Have fun the last part of your trip, we think BA is a wonderful place to end the journey :)
Greetings,
JW and Gu
ps: we found a nice secondhand bookshop selling The brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevski, we won´t be short on good books the next few weeks :)
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