Yet again our journey through South America involved a boat trip. This time on the Navimag ferry, the Evangalist, from Puerto Natales northwards to Puerto Montt. We boarded the boat at 10pm on Monday after a meal with our friends from the trek in Torres del Paine, Max, Danielle, Simon and Ange. Max and Danielle were travelling northwards in a few days via El Calafate and El Chalten. Simon and Ange would be joining us on the ferry. 
The Navimag ferry leaves once a week in either direction and initially was set up for cargo. They soon realised there is a lot of revenue in passenger transportation as well. At this time of year there was a definite 'odour de cow' as a lorry of cattle were being transported in the hold below, the smell getting stronger each day. The route is a well known journey through the Chilean fjords and channels. Travelling through beautiful scenery with the chance to see whales, seabirds and other wildlife. The journey was nice, but didn't quite live up to our expectations. Perhaps after the amazing scenery of the Antarctic and Torres del Paine we are just 'amazing sceneried out'. We felt that it was relatively expensive for what we got from the trip although it did include 4 nights accommodation and food. We did have a good time chatting to Simon and Ange and fellow Brits Lara and David and Allie as well as many others. We had some well deserved rest and were lucky enough to have a 4 bed cabin to ourselves. If there had been 4 of us in there I think that we'd have had cabin fever very quickly. The fjords were pretty, but for us at this stage of our travels just not amazing. What was amazing was the probable Blue whale sighting. We saw the spouting, the back and then more and more back, it was huge. Not really any other whale it could have been, definitely very very exciting.
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