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Among the Magellanic penguins on Isla Magdalena

March 8, 20182 min read2018

Dateline March 8, 2018, Penguins and Cape Horn

Off Punta Arenas we went ashore on Isla Magdalena, where 120,000 Magellanic penguins nest in the heart of the Strait of Magellan, and walked among them past a lighthouse from 1902. Then the ship carried us around Cape Horn, calm and kind to us for once, though the old shipwreck stories were never far from mind. The Falklands were next.

#Magellanic Penguins #Isla Magdalena #Punta Arenas

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Chile

March 5, 20182 min read2018

Dateline March 5, 2018, Chile and the Patagonian Fjords

From Peru we flew to Santiago and, with Steve and Marilyn, boarded a Princess ship at San Antonio for fourteen days around the bottom of the continent. Our balcony looked out on the Chilean coast as we sailed south: a day among the volcanoes and falls near Puerto Montt, and a slow, breathtaking pass by the Amalia Glacier off the Patagonian ice field. The Horn and the penguins lay ahead.

#Santiago #Patagonia #Amalia Glacier

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