Patagonia

Ushuaia, Argentina

Christi hiding in the elf forrest.

The view looking south over Ushuaia,

Christi really liked this funky lamp.

Seals and birds on our boat trip in the Beagle Channel.  The birds make their nests out of seaweed and poop.

The lighthouse on our boat trip in the Beagle Channel.

Our bus had to stop and let the sheep go around us.  This is what it was like on all sides of the bus for a few minutes.

Torres Del Paine, Chile

About a centimeter on both sides.

Torres Del Paine (towers of pain).  Our legs felt like towers of pain after the hike up here.  But we got lucky because the peaks were covered in clouds all day, then cleared up just about three minutes after we got to this lookout point.

El Calafate, Argentina

Christi hanging out with her sheep friend.  This was one of the hostel pets.  Bahahaha!!

Perito Moreno Glacier is 5 kilometers (3 mi) wide, with an average height of 74 m (240 ft) above the surface of the water and it has an area of 250 sq km (97 sq mi), with a length of 30 km (19 mi). 

This is the view from the boat while approaching.

And this is the view from the boat while closer up.  We´re still pretty far back but you can´t get too close because of the falling ice chunks.

The view from the lookout trail.

A relaivaly small piece falling off.  It´s actually pretty loud when they smack the water.  We also have some nice video of larger chunks coming down.

El Chaltén, Argentina

This is what it looked like as we drove into town in the evening.  We found this photo on the web because the one we took out of the bus was blury.  AND we woke up the next day to clouds and rain that lasted for a few days.

 As you can see it was windy this day (the photo is even at an angle).  It almost blew us off the mountain and Christi had to sit down and brace herself between two rocks to take this.

Still cloudy, so we hiked to this nearby waterfall.

Bariloche, Argentina

Both of these photos were taken from the top of a hill called Cerro Campanario that was west of town.