We left Ancud after rain showers finally cleared but we were still wearing full wet weather gear as the sky still looked dark. We fuelled up without any queues as the petrol prices had gone up at midnight and headed… Continue reading

I had breakfast by myself in the morning as Andrew was recovering from a serious food poisoning. I asked for a late check-out and was told we could stay until 12:30 – 1:00pm. There were still rain showers too and… Continue reading

It was a rainy night and we went into the pizzeria for our breakfast and ordered their coffee and tea as it was too wet to fire up our gas stove and there was no shelter over the picnic table… Continue reading

We woke up early and I found a beautiful leopard slug (Limax maximus) in the vestibule outside of our tent. We waited until the sun came out to have breakfast and watched the small hummingbird, Green-backed Firecrown (Sephanoides sephaniodes), eat… Continue reading

We had power for the first time of our stay in the morning and the nice lady was at reception and we explained that our ferry was delayed and if it was possible to stay in the common area until… Continue reading

We left La Junta in our full wet weather gear – I put my one piece rain suit on for the first time as it was not only still raining on and off but it also was rather chilly with… Continue reading

The first day of our stay in La Junta was nice weather and one reason for staying in La Junta was that we had booked a time slot at the thermal baths “El Sauce” which are ~20 km outside of… Continue reading

We had another late start – we are just sleeping so well in our tent (even better after a long hike 😉) and are really getting used to this being on a “permanent holiday” (song lyrics from Mike Love) and… Continue reading

After a deep and restful sleep in our tent we woke up at sunrise and decided to try to hike the longest trail (La Morrena Trail) up to a better vantage point with closer views of the glacier and waterfalls… Continue reading

We had planned to leave early as we needed to get to the Queulat National Park entry by no later than 2:30pm as that is the latest entry into the park. The total distance was 225 km but google suggested… Continue reading