Thursday, January 01, 2009

Bulnes, Lolita, Punta Arenas (19-22 December 2008)

More tourism in the windy city. We went south by car to visit Fuerte Bulnes which was established by the Chileans to claim the area back in 1843.


Oh, look, a ship approaches! The location was found to be too inhospitable, in 1848 the settlement of Punta Arenas was established some 60 km to the north.

Here I am at the city lookout in Punta Arenas. It is not called the windy city for nothing, although we were fortunate on this day.
To the north of Punta Arenas we visited the "Estancia Lolita". We wanted to see some of the wildlife that we might have seen in the National Park. In the estancia we saw swans, wild geese, cuy, grey fox, Ñandù, alpaca, guanacos, and of course the Puma.