Four days on a ship heading down the Chilean coast

Trip Start Nov 19, 2003
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Trip End Dec 19, 2003


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Friday, December 5, 2003

Here are some the pictures from an amazing four-day trip on a ferry travelling down the coast of Chile. We left Puerto Montt on Monday, and travelling down though channels (one only 80 metres wide) and some open sea, arriving on Thursday in Puerto Natales.

It was a regular roll-on roll-off ferry (I think about 10,000 tonnnes) carrying cargo to parts of Chile whose only road connection with the rest of the country involves passing through Argentina. Apart from a navy patrol boat, the only sign of human life we saw was the village of Puerto Eden. It has a population of about 250 people, and the stop which this ferry makes is its lifeline. Apart from that, the lack of humans around us was made up for by dolphins, killer whales, albatrosses and penguins.
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