Well what a title.We have woken to another glorious day but red red sky in the east is supposed to mean Bad weather. We are at Calefate, Argentina just below 50 degrees and have had a couple of days to catch up on the administration back home. This is especially needed for the guys running […]
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Our last Glacier – Perito Moreno
Just as Chile boasts of San Rafael, Argentina has the Perito Moreno glacier to skite about. And it’s a beauty alright, slightly easier to access than via a 5 hour each way boat ride. In fact we rode the bikes from El Calafate to the face, or at least to where it faces off against […]
Her view
Tony, calling me one of the members sounds fowl, don’t be a chicken Tony name the culprits. We will. Yes it was me who overshot the corner and didn’t even realise there was going to be a corner that day. I saw Gareth standing by a cattle stop and continued as a nice girl does […]
A great day for an Adventure
Chile to Argentina via Mt Baker We awoke to a fantastic sunrise over lake General Carrera and the alps of the Cerro Castillo national park. The plan yesterday was to travel around the lake and cross the border at Chile Chico, one of the more common and more used border crossings. One of the previous plans […]
The Carretera Austral
Or Chile’s Ruta 7 as this 1200 km road from Puerto Monte to Villa O’Higgins is otherwise known took 10 years and cost 11 lives to build. It only serves 100,000 people and the country it runs through must have been hell to build a road through. But the General Pinochet regime – and the […]
Below 45 degrees South
45 degrees latitude isn’t much really, about Dunedin but in Chile you have a big effect from the Polar region. The town of Puerto Aisen that we are in and the newer port of Chacabuco 20 km down the road have very predictable weather, it rains 400 days of the year, according to locals . […]
A ride in the Police car
The square of Peurto Aisen had a stage set up and a few speakers playing piped music to the teenage audience during the afternoon, looked like a non-event. We continued on to the only eating establishment not serving burgers, but after at 10 pm ther was some action. A huge truck parked in front of […]
The challenge begins
Until now we have had sections of riding challenge but it is changing to the tough ride we wanted. We were warned that there is a climate change at Bariloche, and as we headed towards this lakeside town we were in disbelief as the temperature dropped 10 degrees and the wind got up, to maybe […]
Trees again.
We left later than usual to do a back road passed 10 scenic lakes and had to do a double take as the scenery was so New Zealand. What was it, the lakes Central Otago like, the mountains Westland like? Then we got it. It was the beech forest,,,, we felt as if we had […]
Monkey business
Araucaria araucana commonly called the monkey puzzle tree is a long lived native of the Chile and Argentina area we have been passing through. This tree was the main contributor to the carbon deposits of the Carboniferous period 300m years ago and now only has remnants of forest left. This is in part due to […]
