Flavia & Gregory go LA

Ushuaia has been another good spot. 3 nights here have meant a bit of rest and the chance to recover from the frenetic driving of the past few days.

Day 1 was entirely dedicated to relaxing, laundry, Internet, and a visit to the dentist to finish off the job started in Buenos Aires, where I had a root canal treatment done as the inlay replacement they did in London was hurting like hell when chewing and, believe me, you do not want to have tooth problems with all the Argentinian beef there is around here... The dentist in BA were great, they did a very good job and treated me like an old friend (they were recommended by Miriam, a friend of mine, so fair enough). But the dentist here was picked at random, and treated me like a friend just the same! All ladies dentist, wonderful women!! I had to have the canal root treatment finished off - permanent filling - so I popped in the first place I saw. Miriel saw me immediately and filled up the hole. Since we had spoken about the prices I had paid in London to do the crap job she could see and not believe, when she finished she told me she had a surprise for me and guess what? While she was sealing off the tooth in question she also whitened out another small adjacent filling as it looked like an eye sore and she could not believe that the person who had done the rest of the job had left it there like that!! And she gave me her email address and asked me to email her when I am in Mexico to tell her that the job she did lasted!! Honestly!!

On day 2 we went on a boat trip in the Beagle channel. Very nice, 4 hrs long trip going round to the lighthouse spot and a couple of islands, one with the seals and the other with the emperor cormorants, or something like that. Big birds. It is crazy how all these seals cramp up this tiny island one on top of each other when there are so many other empty islands?? The guide reckoned that it must be due to either security or lots of food around this particular island, seen that they never leave it and all the females have their babies there. Then we went for a walk on an island that was once inhabited by this indigenas that lived there NAKED!!!! Since they lived out of the sea and they were getting constantly wet, they worked out that they were better off not wearing anything and cover themselves with seal´s fat as insulation and dry themselves by the fire!! This is at 0 degress or so. BAH! The sad part is that once the European explorers got here, they wiped them out by poisoning them as they were competing for the seals, can you believe that? Then a British guy called Bridges arrived and he tried to save the last 100 survivals but of course it was too late - so today their island is called Bridges Island.

Day 3 (today) we went to visit the Parque Nacional de Tierra Del Fuego. We walked on itinerary 2 which is the path along the sea - 6,5 km, about 3 hours, and the views were very nice.

I have managed to squeeze a pic in, took me 10 minutes but worth the effort I think!

Seals in the Beagle Channel, boat trip