Parque Nacional del Tierra del Fuego

I was picked up Christmas morning at 9am and off we went (after picked up a nice middle aged English couple) to the national park. The walk was relatively easy, but the scenery was spectacular. After a 3K piece through the forest of nidas and lengas we hit the shoreline and followed the path for several kilometres more along the bay. We saw some ibis again, and some oystercatchers, but also some flightless steamer ducks. A highlight was seeing a pair of flighted steamer ducks with chicks that were likely just a week or so old.

More walk along the coast, some pauses on the former trash dumps of the Yanagui (I need to check this) who lived along the coast several thousand years ago, to admire the view of the water and mountains, with the snow capped ones in Chile in the distance. For lunch we took a zodiac boat to an island in the middle of the Beagle Channel, and sat and ate in what turned out to be a sunny (and relatively warm) day.

A short hike after lunch, more views, and then a choppier zodiac ride back into the park to be picked up and shuttled back into town. The guide has invited me to a barbeque he´s having tonight, so we will see how that goes.




Tomorrow I head back for one last night in Buenos Aires, and then back to Toronto.