Category: Back In a Heartbeat 2024. Antarctica, South America, Easter Island/Rapa Nui

A veritably late start to our day this morning with our half day city tour and Tigre Delta cruise not kicking off till 10. Our guide Claudia and driver, Pablo arrived close to our scheduled 10am pick up. We had a small 20 seater Mercedes bus just for us. Claudia was an absolute font of…

Pick up 6:30am for 10:05am flight. Said our goodbyes to Steve at the hotel. Check in with two paying overweight baggage! (None of which are me!) Then breaky and some tech time at the airport. Actually boarded and took off early and landed 20 minute early. A good flight, sat next to a Dad and…

Last night we decided to ditch the Macuco cruise we had planned as we think it’s similar to the boat ride we did yesterday. We swapped it for the Parque de Aves. This was easily arranged by Mary, via What’s App at drinks with Iemanja, the tour co, with confirmation from Ripioturismo. We were ready…

Beto (Elvis) was our guide. With a 6:15 pick up which was a little late as he slept in and car wouldn’t start. Man, what a way to spend a birthday! We were in a Ford Ranger Ute today and started with a coffee and pastry at a local servo. Nice as we were too…

Nice mid morning pick up at 9.45. A 20 minute or so trip to airport with Rumbo Sur (the tour company that has been looking after transfers and tours for us) We had tried our own check in to our two flights yesterday at breaky. Steve is on one booking and we three on another…

A slow and easy start. We had decided to walk into the Laguna Nimez along the lake but time spent over breaky changed plans. We caught the free taxi in a little after 10am. Paid to enter the Laguna Nimez, basically a reserve for birdlife and flora where we hoped to get a good look…

The views from our rooms are pretty damn good. Sun is getting up late around 7.30-8.00 and we get some good light. There has been a full moon too which looks speccy hiding behind and peeking out from the clouds. Clouds here are also amazing to watch, lots at different levels and changing and moving…

Bed was good. Our room has huge windows with view over the lake. Very hot in daytime but ok at night. Slept solidly and a little after 7.30 we noticed some colour in the sky. I got up and dressed to take a few shots. The moon was still up looking pretty good behind clouds…

Rain pattering in the window raised me from my slumber in the wee hours. The room is super warm so we opened windows as wide as we could for some cool air. The wall heater would not turn off. (Handy to dry the socks and jocks but phew!!!) Still raining at get up time –…

We continue to sit and wait and watch the snow fall. Had to venture out to the deck for obligatory snow shots. While waiting to order coffee I spoke to a couple of ladies who indicated that there was one less on the ship – they had seen the positive test news delivered while they…