Our Vacation in
Argentine and Chilean Patagonia
We hope you enjoy these photos we took during our
first summer vacation in 14 years.
The trip, after months of planning, lasted 8 weeks exactly. It began on January 9, 2004 and ended on March 5!
We were all tanned, tired and tickled to get home, but had a good time.
This started by taking a 38 hour ferry ride in 2 cabins along with our vehicle. This was from the world's most southern town, Puerto Williams to the world's most southern City, Punta Arenas, Chile. (See map at end.)
Then we drove for 4 hours to Puerto Natales where the "Navimag" ferry was waiting for us to navigate us along with car for 3 days through the Chilean Channels.
Click on thumbnails for bigger photos.
The trip, after months of planning, lasted 8 weeks exactly. It began on January 9, 2004 and ended on March 5!
We were all tanned, tired and tickled to get home, but had a good time.
This started by taking a 38 hour ferry ride in 2 cabins along with our vehicle. This was from the world's most southern town, Puerto Williams to the world's most southern City, Punta Arenas, Chile. (See map at end.)
Then we drove for 4 hours to Puerto Natales where the "Navimag" ferry was waiting for us to navigate us along with car for 3 days through the Chilean Channels.
Click on thumbnails for bigger photos.
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Typical patagonian road at the begining of our trip near Punta Arenas (We drove on about 2600 miles of paved roads and 400 gravel) |
Road to Natales |
Ferry from Natales to Puerto Montt (72 hrs) |
Navimag ferry which holds about 200 persons and 25 cars and trucks |
Sunken boat which hit a rock seen from ferry |
This is close to the Straits of Magellan |
Cook's daughter, Aida who spent the 3 day trip playing with our daughters |
tourist kids, Vicky, Aida, Aimee |
Tourist Monica enjoying the trip |
Grace, Amy also enjoying |
Chilean channels that we took for more than 1000 miles |
Grace, Vicky, Amy |
Seals. We saw many blue and humpback whales also |
seals |
Puerto Montt end of the ferry ride. Now we are on our way driving to to San Carlos, where Monica was born. It's about 240 miles South of Santiago with beautiful pasture land and mountain views on the way |
Puerto Montt Beach Good swimming |
Osorno Volcano and Llanquihue lake |
Frutillar on the lake |
Frutillar beach showing typical farm lands. Most of this area was settled by Germans in the 19th century |
Laja waterfall flows over a lava base and is only a few feet deep. |
We camped here 3 days. Good swimming in shallow water |
Grace likes the water! |
Grace, friends in San Carlos with cousin from Santiago on her left |
On our way back south we took another ferry to Chiloe Island (180 miles long of beautiful scenery) and saw these stilt houses |
Castro, capital of Chiloe |
Road to Cucao beach with Nalca leaf (they are something like Rubarb and good to eat) |
Cucao Beach (Pacific with good surfing) This national park is a favorite spot for backpackers |
Seemingly endless Beach with clam shells and our 4x4. We had to pull out several 2 wheel drive vehicles from the beach |
Dog with his Dead Seal lunch |
Camping at Cucao just a cople of miles from the beach |
