Mood: Happy
Music: None (yet)
I'm writing this a lot earlier than normal but I think the excitement has gone for today. I only have several hours of sitting at airports and sat on planes to go.
This morning we up early to visit Magellan Island, the breeding place of the Magellan penguin. There are over 65,000 breeding pairs on the tiny island and they stretch as far as the eye can see!
We got off onto the island and walked up a marked path to the lighthouse on the highest point. All the while we had penguins meters from us going about their normal lives. The young were just starting to lose their thick warm fat coat. The adults were going down to the water to wash themselves (as they do regularly to maintain the waterproofness of their coats).
On the way back to the boat I managed to get a few shots of them leaping out of the water!
After that we had breakfast and packed our belongings as the boat steamed for Punta Arenas. It took a couple of hours to get everyone off as they only had one coach shuttling the 180 of us 200m along the harbour to the customs building.
I'm now sat in the reception of the hotel my bags were dropped at using their internet connection before my transfer to the airport. I'm going to end this here so I can go have lunch before I take off.
Bye for now.
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