We took a car ferry from Punta Arenas and arrived on the wind blown island of Tierra del Fuego. A few hours driving got us to the most Northern known colony of King Penguins in the world.
After driving a while longer and crossing the border from Chile to Argentina, for the first time in our trip we saw the Atlantic ocean. There's something that makes me feel at home about the Atlantic and while there were no waves, it's nice to think that all my friends and family in England are just on the other side of the water (all be it a pretty long way away!!).
We drove for several more hours and decided to treat ourselves to a hotel as it'd been quite some time. The following day we pushed on to Ushuaia and drove as far South as is possible to the end of Ruta 3. We'd heard mixed reports about Ushuaia, but decided it's quite a nice town with lots of artwork scattered around the place and a nice backdrop of mountains.
We camped a fairly cold night in the National Park and were lucky enough to see a fox really close up. The next day we decided to push on and start making our way North. But not before we'd made the hike out to see Laguna Esmerelda. Really nice lake hemmed in by steep mountains, nice trek through the wilderness, REALLY muddy though, came very close to slipping over a few times.
Just before catching the ferry back to the mainland, after a night slept in the car, as I was about to boil some water on our stove by the side of the road a really friendly Uruguayan/Argentinian couple invited us into their motorhome for a coffee and some freshly cooked bread. You get some really nice people here in South America and we were pretty excited to sit and chat (in our very best Spanglish!) with our new friends.
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