Friday 3/10/6

This is the road from Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales. My camera broke so I am steeling a few pictures from Dale Ploung. He and his wife Sandy are traveling through South America for the next couple of years, and he takes some great pictures. Here is a link to his web www.ploung.com

This is the Navimag office in Puerto Natales, where you catch the ferry for Puerto Montt about 900 mile North.
Since I didn't know when I would get here I didn't have a resevation so I went on the wait list. At three oclock I got a cabin and was set to leave. The boat was to load at 9pm and leave with the tide sometime sat morning.



These six guys showed up they came up from Ushuaia, they were all from Rio de Janeiro. they rode bikes 2 Harleys, 2 V Strom(1,000), KTM 950,BMW(GS).
We went to town to eat and Walter the veternarian, kept saying when he is 68 he wants to be me. They all spoke English and we had a lot of conversations on the three day trip North.

I thought the crew were getting carried away with thier tieing down of the bikes, until we hit the open ocean on sunday then I knew why.








Another picture of the bikes tied down.

I had three cabin mates 2 19 year olds from England, and a 28 year old from Philidalphia, who had lived in Venezuela for the past 2 years. The kids from England were traveling for a year between high school and collage. Like I did when I hitch hiked around the U S in 57&58.




This was a working boat with a lot of frieght, including horses, sheep, and cattle. this picture was taken from my cabin window, I told the guys to imagine they were on a farm in Nebraska, when the noise started.