The very uninteresting scenery on the way from Calafete to Paine National Park
The Paine Range
The panorama from near our hostel
There are thousands of these Guanacos in the park (a relative of the Llama)
The Towers of Paine
View from the lookout at the top of the moraine.
The ‘Horns’ on the Paine Range
Grey Lake and Grey Glacier in the distance
Meeting the ‘locals’
Over the last couple of days, we have explored most of the flat agricultural area of the Yorke Peninsula. Today, we moved through some more undulating country which is more focused on grazing rather than grain cropping. In a previous post I mentioned that most of the land on the peninsula is used for growing […]
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Tonight, we are back in the big smoke, or at least as big as is Port Augusta at the head of the Spencer Gulf. It’s large enough to have at least two supermarkets and a car wash – the largest town we have seen in five days. Last night, our final one in the Flinders […]
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In many ways, I made a fortuitous decision to take a day tour to the port city of Valparaiso when I stayed over in Santiago for a final day on my way home from the Galapagos islands. I’m going back a week, or so, in time with this post but a lot has happened over […]
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Hey, Bruce, in the ‘Meeting the Locals’ photo, which one is Jill?
Looks wonderful can’t wait for the verbal stories
Firstly, thankyou for your kind comments Mr Brown!!!!
New Zealand scenery is pretty impressive too, but we girls are also finding the best eating spots and cafe culture around. Why make it an endurance test!!
Freedom for all guanacos!
Bruce, I’m glacial green/blue with envy, especially as I’ll be so close next month and yet so far due to inaccessability. Glad you didn’t persuade me to do the trek…….sounds exhausting. Your guanaco photo reminded me of a kangaroo Did my earlier comments get through?/
Fantastic photos Bruce. What scenery!!!!!!
I will refrain from making any comments re how hard all the walking seems(….relative to the rigours of NZ) until we catch upStay well …and keeps blogging!!!!
Thanks
Rob