Day 30 - Puerto Chacabuco, Chile

Sunday our port of call was Puerto Chacabuco, Chile. WE are now in what is called the Aysen Fjords. This is a small town of  just over 1000 people.  Our excursion today was :The Natural Bueaty of  Patagonia.


Where the region of Patagonia is,



First sight of the Andes mountains in the early morning light.

A hint of sunrise.

Behind us as we near Puerto Chacabuco.

Then some pink in the sunrise color.

Sunrise color reflection of 2 mountaintop snow



Where the sun show come up

Another tender port




Our excursion.





Our guide Sebastian showing us were we will walk


Chilean Rhubarb  or Gunnera is a rhubarb like herb.


Our guide Sebastian showing us a mose ball


A stream

A 350 year old tree




Starting to hear the roar of water from here.

The Barba del Viejo  waterfall is about 60  feet high.



Lens is getting wet from the spray.





A restaurant on the property









Locals performing some local dances

Cooking meat




View of a lake from the restaurant.


Back on the bus


Back to the ship.


A water fall seen in sections all the way down the mountain

An old boat 

Starting sailing away

The town is small

A fish farm.

The clouds and fog moving in.



First  signs of sunset.



The rain started making it tough to shoot out the Crowsnest windows


This is a sunset time   (8:53 PM)

Then 15 minutes later some sunset color appeared in the higher clouds.

I started fading a few minutes later.


 

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