Punta Arenas and Strait of Magellan

Punta  Arenas 5th February

We paid sorely for the rich meal last night, I didn’t sleep very much and woke up still feeling like I had had this enormous meal.  Think I will have to give up rich food from now on.

So today we were in in Punta Arenas, the last stop off in Chile for us.  We were up at 6.30 as we had  trip booked out to Magdelena Island to see a penguin colony.

We took a large speed boat out to the island which took a out 45 mins, and then hour just over an hour with 120,000 Magellan penguins.  I wouldn’t have thought I could get so excited about penguins, but they were absolutely wonderful, I was bowled over and so was Rod.

Penguins, Penguins everywhere.. Wonderful.

They dragged us all back to the boat and we very reluctantly left the island and headed for Marta Island.  This time we couldn’t get off the boat, so we just chugged around it to see massive seal lions and thousands of cormoronts.

To top it all I am sitting outside at the back of the boats when two dolphins leapt out of the water and started spinning in the air beside us... magic.

Wot a great morning.  We walked around Punta Arenas which I thought was a great place, about 17,000 Population and a hint of a pioneer town.  Walked along the sea front and wandered back to the ship early afternoon.

Still feel bloated from last night and really tired. Fell asleep inthe afternoon, had dinner with the guys and went to bed early.  can’t keep the pa ce any more.