Friday, February 22, 2008

We're off the boat!

We arrived last night at about 6pm in Puerto Natales.  The trip down was great.  Four days on a ferry, with a 12 hour period on the Pacific crossing the Penas Gulf bobbing around like a cork...  The swell wasn't huge, but there were a couple of moments when I thought I might get my pigtails dunked in the ocean from my bunk bed...
 
We're heading into the Torres del Paine National Park tomorrow.  We're planning to hike the 'circuit'....  So, we'll be walking for 8 days (7 nights) carrying all our food, tent and sleeping bags.  It's gonna be a heavy backpack tomorrow morning....
 
Gotta run, and shop for food.  Light food.

 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hi hedda i'm so glad your off the boat safely... four days at sea is a pretty good stretch... like it seems like your sea legs stay with you for a while... any way i did google puerto natales ..what fasinating area a complex of islands,,, down very near the very end of south america.. wow,, you guys are literally trekking around the world ,,, what better way to experience Mother Earth.. love paul