John's Blog
Its been a very good day today. One of the jobs that we’d come here to Punta Arenas to do was to contact the appropriate people in the Armada de Chile, ( navy) and discuss with them the upcoming voyage by Howard in his modified SCAMP. Another job was to find...John's Blog
Punta Arenas, when we read cruising stories, or those tales from the round the world yacht races, or old Joshua Slocums book it seems a place of mystery and dreams. But now we’re here, its very real. What a place. The people here have been...John's Blog
A graveyard of dreams and ships. These are Cape Horners, there are the remains of wrecks all along this shore, skeletal remains sticking up out of clear frigid water, ships that came this far and couldn’t make it further, the end of the line at the bottom...John's Blog
And other things. More on “those boats”. We’e been to Puerto Varas today, the main town on a major lake near here. Its very different to the larger city nearby where we’re staying, clean and tidy, the buildings for the most part more modern and up to date, no...John's Blog
The travelling boots have been doing a lot of exploring, I went with them of course, it wouldnt pay to let them go by themselves, you never know what sort of trouble they’d get into. We’ve had some issues getting from Puerto Montt south to Punta Arenas, and in...John's Blog
Well, the Boot brothers have been doing a lot of walking, together of course, you’ll rarely find them apart from each other. I went along with them, it keeps them out of trouble you know. We’ve been exploring part of Chiloe Island just off the coast south of...
