Ushuaia - Argentina
- 2005
In January-February 2005 we visited South America before and after our Antarctic Cruise.
49-days - Melbourne - Auckland - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Ushuaia - 10-day Antarctic Cruise - Ushuaia - El Calafate -
Perito Moreno Glacier - El Calafate - El Chalten - Puerto Natales (Chile) - Torres del Paine NP - Chilean Fiords ferry - Puerto Varas -
Lakes crossing - Bariloche (Argentina) - Buenos Aires - Auckland - Melbourne
After one night in Buenos Aires we had a 3½ flight to Ushuaia on the southern coast of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego.
... the end of the world, the beginning of everything.....
Ushuaia is the southernmost city in the world.
With Viviana in one of the souvenir shops.
While Margaret was looking at the souvenirs, I practised my limited Spanish with the shop assistants.
¿Cuál este tú nombre? (What is your name?)
They appreciated the effort that we had made to learn some basic Spanish.
Alba's House - Our B&B in Ushuaia.
Alba was a lovely hostess who mothered us. She had fine quality bed linen and towels in the ensuite bedrooms.
She arranged our local tours for us and even had a ginger cat, Nina, for Margaret to attend to.
Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego
On our first full day in Ushuaia we went for a 4 hour walk along the Beagle Channel in the nearby national park.
Another day in the park.
The end of the road. Ruta 3 runs 3063km (with a ferry across Magellan Strait) to Buenos Aires.
Then on through the northern areas of South America, by ferry across the Darien Gap, and on and on, to Alaska.
Martial Glacier
From Ushuaia we had a short taxi ride to the chairlift for the walk up to this small glacier.
Harberton
We took a bus to Estancia Harberton, on the Beagle Channel, 60km from Ushuaia.
Considered of high historical value, Harberton was founded in 1886 by the Anglican missionary,Thomas Bridges and his wife, Mary Ann.
Mary Ann came from Harberton in Scotland.
On the way we stopped to photograph the flag trees all leaning towards the north from the strong Patagonian winds.
Harberton is now administered by Thomas Goodall, a great grandson of the founder, Bridges.
Bridges was an orphan who was adopted by Jorge Pakenham Despard, an earlier missionary in Ushuaia.
He was christened Thomas Bridges after being found under a bridge wearing a medal with T on it.
We went on a cruise to Martillo Island (known as Yecapasela in the native language).
There is a 15,000 Magellanic Penguin colony on the island as well as a few red-footed and beaked Gentoo Penguins.
Baleen from a whale.
Whales use baleen as a strainer to filter krill and other small marine organisms for food.
Last looks at Ushuaia from the Aerolineas Arggentinas jet on our flight to El Calafate in Patagonia.
In January-February 2005 we visited South America before and after our Antarctic Cruise.
49-days - Melbourne - Auckland - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Ushuaia - 10-day Antarctic Cruise - Ushuaia - El Calafate -
Perito Moreno Glacier - El Calafate - El Chalten - Puerto Natales (Chile) - Torres del Paine NP - Chilean Fiords ferry - Puerto Varas -
Lakes crossing - Bariloche (Argentina) - Buenos Aires - Auckland - Melbourne
After one night in Buenos Aires we had a 3½ flight to Ushuaia on the southern coast of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego.
... the end of the world, the beginning of everything.....
Ushuaia is the southernmost city in the world.
With Viviana in one of the souvenir shops.
While Margaret was looking at the souvenirs, I practised my limited Spanish with the shop assistants.
¿Cuál este tú nombre? (What is your name?)
They appreciated the effort that we had made to learn some basic Spanish.
Alba's House - Our B&B in Ushuaia.
Alba was a lovely hostess who mothered us. She had fine quality bed linen and towels in the ensuite bedrooms.
She arranged our local tours for us and even had a ginger cat, Nina, for Margaret to attend to.
Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego
On our first full day in Ushuaia we went for a 4 hour walk along the Beagle Channel in the nearby national park.
Another day in the park.
The end of the road. Ruta 3 runs 3063km (with a ferry across Magellan Strait) to Buenos Aires.
Then on through the northern areas of South America, by ferry across the Darien Gap, and on and on, to Alaska.
Martial Glacier
From Ushuaia we had a short taxi ride to the chairlift for the walk up to this small glacier.
Harberton
We took a bus to Estancia Harberton, on the Beagle Channel, 60km from Ushuaia.
Considered of high historical value, Harberton was founded in 1886 by the Anglican missionary,Thomas Bridges and his wife, Mary Ann.
Mary Ann came from Harberton in Scotland.
On the way we stopped to photograph the flag trees all leaning towards the north from the strong Patagonian winds.
Harberton is now administered by Thomas Goodall, a great grandson of the founder, Bridges.
Bridges was an orphan who was adopted by Jorge Pakenham Despard, an earlier missionary in Ushuaia.
He was christened Thomas Bridges after being found under a bridge wearing a medal with T on it.
We went on a cruise to Martillo Island (known as Yecapasela in the native language).
There is a 15,000 Magellanic Penguin colony on the island as well as a few red-footed and beaked Gentoo Penguins.
Baleen from a whale.
Whales use baleen as a strainer to filter krill and other small marine organisms for food.
Last looks at Ushuaia from the Aerolineas Arggentinas jet on our flight to El Calafate in Patagonia.
