Ushuaia

The weather today was better than expected so we planned to squeeze in two activities. We got up at first light and headed out with our hiking gear. There is popular local hike to Martial Glacier right from the town. The hike took about 5 hours which included walking through town, up a ski hill and trail blazing in 1 foot snow until we lost the trail about 400m from the top of the glacier. There was really great vistas of the city. We hurriedly headed back down to catch an afternoon boat ride on the beagle channel. This is the most popular tourist activity in Ushuaia. We had a 4 hour ride on a small boat that took us to a light house and to another island for a short walk. We saw sea lions and cormorants. Sadly the Penguins had all gone north to Brazil for the winter. The weather was still sunny but a breeze had picked up and we had 2 meter waves tossing the boat around. The captain considered turning around at one point but pushed on. It felt like quite the adventure on the sea! One wave swamped Rebecca as she opened the cabin door getting her and a few other passengers completely soaked. Luckily she was wearing her Gortex and rain paints. We learned a little about the indigenous tribes that used to live here and were amazed that they used to survive down here with no clothes on a very fatty diet. They would have done amazing on Discovery Channel’s TV show ‘Naked and Afraid’! On the way back to shore we got great views of the city at nighttime all lit up. What a busy but great day!Weiterlesen