Having left Puerto Natales for the last time, we will hold up in Punta Arenas, Chile , for a short while to
enjoy some post park time and try to put a little future travel planning in place. We had been focused and committed up to the park when it came to specific dates and times. Beyond were just some possible but likely destinations.
We have been trying to get on another service ferry out of here that would take as far south in inhabited Chile, Puerto Williams, as possible. The "waiting list" doesn't seem to be getting us anywhere. Literally.
Looking like we will be taking the bus.
The area in its wild and very "wooly" days was home to the largest sheep "estancios" in the world.
The ports at this end of the world were hugely busy and bustling in the days leading up to the opening Panama Canal (1912).
(I'm in continual awe, with Canada this year seeing it's one hundred and fiftieth, many places that we have passed through over the past couple of months reached their peak of prosperity and have been in some degree decline one hundred and fifty years ago.)
With that prosperity brought immense wealth for life and death.
Punta Arenas is a city near the tip of Chile's southernmost Patagonia region. Located on the Strait of Magellan, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, it's often used as base for excursions to the surrounding wilderness and Antarctica. The Plaza Muñoz Gamero has a memorial to explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Big Foot
Patagonian style.
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