Ushuaia

We flew from San Jose to LA, then to Lima, Peru, then to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then to Ushuaia, Argentina to reach our ship for our journey to the Antarctic.  It was four flights and a whole lot of flying and airport time but we made it.  We departed Ushuaia by ship.

Ushuaia is the southernmost city on Tierra Del Fuego, an island which is off the southern tip of the American continent: i.e. the end of the road.  It also included the southernmost yacht club, the southernmost bar, the southernmost national park, and the southernmost ice cream parlor – all of which we visited while in Ushuaia.  Ushuaia was a very nice city with friendly people and lots to do and see.

In the first photo, you can see part of Ushuaia.  I took this picture from our ship as we headed out of the harbor for Antarctica.

The second photo was taken at the Tierra Del Fuego National Park.  It gives you an idea of what the end of summer looks like in Tierra Del Fuego.  It has rivers, lakes, glaciers, beech tree forests, sphagnum moss peat bogs, beaver dams, and Upland geese (all of which we saw).

The third photo was also taken in the park.  We left Ushuaia via the Beagle Channel which was quite calm and headed for Drake’s Passage and what we were told was the roughest stretch of water in the world.

The main thing was that our voyage to the Antarctic was underway.