Day 18: 27 June 2002 - "What if it were ours?" "What if it were ours?" "What if it were ours?" "The TV." "You're always watching Japanese animation."
Just before lunchtime, we had a small tremor that shook some of the furniture. Later in the day there was a rather bigger one and I, stupid Michigander that I am, thought everyone was going to the door to see if the garden wall was going to fall down. I know I'd heard something about standing in doorways during earthquakes, but I hadn't considered the possibility of the ceiling collapsing, so I thought an interior doorway would do just as well. Anyway, the tremors didn't get any worse, the garden wall didn't fall down, and everyone was fine.
At lunchtime, we started playing the Alphabet Game, where we would go around in a circle and name animals that started with A. If you couldn't come up with one when your turn came around, you were out. Then when no one else could come up with more As, everyone was back in for B. It was tough for me in Spanish, so I usually got out pretty early, but I did do quite well in the Ds, with things like dingo and degu.
In the late afternoon, tía Amada, Rubet, Alex and I went on a trip to Pan de Azucar National Park. There are many Chilean animals living in the park and we hoped to see things like llamas and pudus. You can also take boat rides there to go and see penguins.
As we drove north to Pan de Azucar, we racing against the sun, as we had done on our trip to Bahía Cisne and Bahía Inglesa. I was very interested by the terrain. The desert changed as we drove through it - in some places full of cacti and in other places full of rocks. In some places, it looked like the surface of Mars.
By the time we reached Pan de Azucar, the sun was setting, but I managed to snap a few pictures of the pelicans there. They weren't very shy of humans and I was afraid the huge birds would come and attack me. We talked to some of the fishermen there and learned that while we could return on Saturday for the penguin-viewing boat ride, it might not be worth it because it was penguin mating season and they weren't likely to be very visible on the tour. So... that's a sight for the next trip to Chile.
srah - Thursday, 27 June 2002 - 1:23 PM
Tags: chile, travel
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