Good question. As I mentioned in the last post, I decided to take a 3-night ferry from Puerto Natales (where I stayed before/after hiking Torres) to Puerto Montt. Pros: downtime, insanely nice weather, Patagonian fjords, whale/penguin/seal sightings, and the company of some folks I'd met in Natales. Cons: being on a boat for 3 nights, lousy food, cramped facilities, cow smell, a bit pricey.
Hard to really paint an accurate picture of the experience. I was in a tiny three bed dorm with a couple of nice guys from New Zealand and Scotland. James (of San Francisco, from Torres del Paine) was also there. Generally a pretty social atmosphere, as we didn't really have anything else to do. There was a lot of this:
Here I am looking bundled:
As mentioned, there were cows in less-than-ideal conditions:
Awesome sunset:
There was also a lot of running back and forth when someone spotted a whale spout, penguin, dolphin, etc. I got a good view of dolphins frolicking alongside the ship, and saw a bunch of whale spouts but no whale tails, really. Here's what it was like when someone saw something:
I had a tendency to lag behind.
At night, we played dice games and drank and looked at stars. Again, not much else to do. My stomach, lo and behold, actually held up well while on the boat. Side note regarding the earthquake: there were whispers about it on the boat, but with no wifi or tv we were pretty cut off. I didn't even realize there was a tsunami scare. Eek. Sorry to worry friends and fam!
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