Tierra del Fuego

 28th February 2012

We left La Posta hostel for a couple of nights to go camping in the Terra Del Fuego Nacional Park. Again this morning Sarah left me in bed to try and catch up on sleep. Yesterday she had mentioned that it was lucky we hadn’t gone to see Abe as I looked really rough, she is such a sweet talker.

Anyway, once up we quickly packed and got a bus to the park at 11am, it dropped us at the campsite which was very helpful, as once again we are lugging our panniers around full of all our camping equipment. We paid our money and then went in search of a pitch, we're not the best at this as we are both so indecisive and we spent a lot of time wandering around. The plus side to this was I spotted 3 Magellenic Woodpeckers, a species I had been looking for for quite awhile now and here they were at a campsite. We did finally decide on a pitch and once the tent was up we relaxed and had a cup of tea and talk about what we wanted to do over the next 3 days. The decision was made to do a walk along a lake shore this evening and we packed our bags with our essentials and headed off past the toilets. It was here we bumped into Bob one of the guides from the ship, we chatted for a while he said that he had also seen the woodpeckers along the lake side.

The walk was really nice and some of the reflections on the lake surface where beautiful. It wasn't a long walk, but it took in some lovely views and there weren't very many people on it. The end of the walk was at the Chilean and Argentine border which we weren't too sure exactly where it was, so we carried on strolling along a beach, until we decided that we were now most probably in Chile and were illegal immigrants. So we retaced our steps and found a log to enjoy the view. Our first day in the park was lovely and the weather seems as though it is going to be kind to us.