So far we have cruised the Beagle channel, saw the famous light house at the end of the world known as Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse(it actually isn't the last light house, the real one is 300 miles away, and would take an expedition to get there) This light house is more for the tourist and is kind of like Ushuaia's harbour bridge or opera house, you see it everywhere around town...
Other highlights on the Beagle channel tour are South American Sea Lions, and the mountains surrounding the channel, oh and these crazy trees called flag trees. There called flag trees cause the wind here is fiercely strong and have shaped the trees to looking like flags. Awesome...
But the best thing about the tour was doing it with my B, [I think I just heard the world go awwweee :-) ]
The boat we went on was called the Barracuda. We were a little concerned for the life of the business by the end of the trip, because on our tour there was only four people on this massive boat, when other similar tours had heaps more people. We hope that the business stays a float, no pun intended.
The mountains surrounding the Beagle channel are magnificent to say the least, they're just as mysterious as the Peruvian mountains we just came from. These snow capped mountains surround the the Beagle channel, Ushuaia is actually in the middle section of the Beagle with Isla Navarino, Chile on the other side.
The boat trip across the Beagle stopped of a couple of small islands with South American Sea Lions. We have seen so many of these little critters, that we we're kind of over the whole sea lion thing. Show me the WHALES.... But still the puppy seals where so cute and we both fell in love with them :-)
Being there only four passengers we where given a tour of the bridge. It wasn't that exciting, no cool navigational toys, cause the boat was an old boat and it's only course these days is the Beagle channel tour.
On the way back to the port we had hot chocolates, it was a nice way to end the trip.
Peace
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