A coastal walk

1st March 2012

Another night in the tent and thankfully it was warmer and we both slept well. We then had a fairly relaxed rise, largely due to aching legs after yesterdays jaunt up the mountain. I’m definitely not feeling as fit as I was before going to Antarctica!

We packed away most of the gear inside the tent, but left it standing and set off to the parks information centre, where they had displays on the formation of the park, glacierisation, wildlife and the original native people that had lived on Tierra del Fuego. It was actually very interesting and informative with most of the displays translated into English. We then continued on to do a coastal walk along a bay. It was pleasant and helped ease off the aching quads, but with a multitude of people walking down the trail in the opposite direction we didn't have much chance of seeing much wildlife. Just the odd inquisitive Caracara (bird of prey, opportunist and generally very cheeky), of which we'd seen many from our days on the bikes. The coast was pretty and it was a nice way to spend the day.

Back at the campsite we packed our tent away and caught the 5pm minibus back to Ushuaia. Typical Argentine style it took ages as we seemed to have random stops and the driver spent time watching a couple of lads playing football.