Thursday 2 February
6.30 start and a longish day retracing back across Tierra Del Fuego, customs, ferry to the mainland and up the Chilean coast. Some of the group jumped out on board the ferry and went up on deck to have a look. As it happened, there was a pod of small but highly active Commerson's dolphins which put on a big show and the group returned with huge smiles.
The evening stop was fascinating – a ghost town next to the sea (San Gregorio). There were two skeleton ships there. An iron skeleton, wood hulled 3 masted sailing ship and a steamship with the boilers exposed. Most of the steel plate was rusted off, at least on one side and it was an interesting insight into the hidden structure. Across the road we parked in among a handful of deserted cottages. Still in reasonable condition, some with cement slabs and some on floorboards. A few people pitched inside and we were probably the furthest afield.
What could have been an old hotel, we camped in and around
Down the road a hundred metres or so we found a couple of large sheds. The bigger one was a shearing shed for 21 shearers and a wool store, loaded up with hundreds of bales of wool, compressed on old wool presses. Fascinating.
C spent the whole day on the front bed/beach, feeling alternately up and down, as had most of the others who caught the plague before him.
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