Wednesday, our port of call was Robinson Crusoe Island. This island is part of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago and is 416 miles off the Chilean coast of which it is a part of. It;s area is 18.5 sq miles. Daniel Defoe's novel "Robinson Crusoe" is based in the story of Alexander Selkirk's 4 year and 4 month marooning on this island in 1704 to1709.
The island's main town is San Juan Batista has a population of about 850. We anchored in the Cumberland Bay and tendered to the pier.. It was raining lightly when we arrived so we waited a couple of hours before we went ashore. We walked around for awhile then Kathy went back to the ship I did some exploring.
I knew nothing of this island before getting here. What a delightful surprise to get to this hidden gem. It is a relatively new volcanic island is sharp pointed peas. It is popular for diving and trail walking.
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| First lights of the town in the bay. |
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| One side of the entrance to the bay |
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| Indications of sunrise arriving |
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| One of the pointed peaks |
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| Low hanging clouds and light rain |
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| Rocks on the other side of entrance to the bay |
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| One of the tenders used to take us ashore. |
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| A long included road through the town |
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| The sun peaking through |
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| A tender near the pier we wnet to |
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| An Eco Lodge on the shore of the bay |
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| The ship seen through the door of the tender |
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| On the tender |
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| Colorful steel steels at the pier |
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| A colorful mural |
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| Walking around town |
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| A nice little park |
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| A sign in Spanish |
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| Some seals were seen near the pier. I only caught the last of them |
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| Kathy went back to the ship but I stayed onshore to do more exploring and picture taking |
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| A statue of Alexander Selkirk who was marooned on this island in early 1700's . This was the basis of Daniel DeFoe's Robinson Caruso. |
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| Signs pointing to attractions and trails |
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| A church |
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| Fort Santa Barbara was built by the Spanish in 1749 to protect the island from pirates and privateers |
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| One of the trails |
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| After betting back down into town I had a local Chilean beer |
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| Next I decided to walk up the long inclines road. |
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| Part way up |
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| A mural showing a variety of hummingbird (Juan Hernandez Firecrown Hummingbird) only found on this island. |
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| Getting near the top |
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| Near the top I spotted some Green-backed Firecrown Hummingbirds which are very closely related to the red Juan Hernandez Firecrown found only on this island . The Green-backed variety are found here on in the main part of Chile |
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| The buah that the hummingbirds were feeding at. |
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| Once back down to the bottom I went looking for another beer and found ir a the restaurant |
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| Map of the island. These is a small airport near the south-west end. |
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| Back onto a tender |
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| A tender dock folds out from the ship |
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| A few more shots around the bay before we depart. |
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| Getting ready to sail |
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| Sailing away. |
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| A masked Booby flying with us |
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| At sunset time of 9:01 - no sun to be seen. |
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