In Perito Moreno Today was a slow day. It wasn’t intentional, it just turned out that way. We were reluctant to get up, so by the time we had had breakfast, showered, packed up and Dennis had replenished our water supply, it was 11.20. We had quite a long drive,…
Before departing the camp this morning I had to put a couple more wire stitches in the drivers side front mudflap. It was hanging on the former two stitches. Also, after all the dusty driving of the last few days, changed the air filter element. I’ll wash the dirty one…
Leaving El Chalten As Dennis mentioned in yesterday’s blog, we had decided to go to the view point to photograph Mount Fitz Roy this morning, as last night the sun had been completely in the wrong position. Sadly when we arrived there, the view was rather disappointing. In the winter,…
There must be a mouse in our fridge. As soon as we buy food, it’s gone!! Off to the supermarket again. There’s something else we need to buy too. A tyre pressure gauge. I must have put it down by a wheel after taking the dust cap off and not…
El Calafate We were lucky. The day dawned warm and sunny. Perfect weather for viewing the glacier. First we drove into town to see if we could find a tyre pressure gauge at Ferreteria Yamat. No luck there, though. Next we needed fuel. The gas station in the centre of…
Waking at 9am this morning to sunshine, Jen said, “let’s stay here another day”. There were no complaints from me. There are things I need to attend to on Poki and Jen wants to do some washing. Work on Poki. On arrival at the camp yesterday afternoon, when climbing onto…
Pehoe Camping We didn’t stay up to see the new year in. However, we were woken at about 2am by our neighbours slamming car doors. Very inconsiderate of them, we thought. They had arrived late in the evening and had asked if they could park next to us and put…
There were serious black clouds gathering in the north east and it looked like we would be in for a serious dousing during the night. The Caranex was prepared before going to bed at 10.30pm. still quite light. There was a frenzy of activity last night to get the blog…
Leaving the Beach. We were surprised to find, on waking, that it was 08.10. We had slept well. However, we had been woken in the night, not by the alarm from the shack behind us, as we feared, but by a thunderstorm and rain. On looking out of Poki into…
Last night’s camp on the beach was brilliant. The wind dropped during the night and it was calm in the morning too. A great sleep in our own bed. As Jen said yesterday, today our destination is Puerto Natales. We are going to stay in Chile to visit the scenic…