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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 

Past the cave of the giant sloth into Puerto Natales

A quite Saturday night in.













Our tent..... All the zips have broken so we've had to sew ourselves in and the weather out.












Sarah with a Selk'nam Indian. A tribe indigenous to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Despite the chilly climate they liked to dress in very little clothes (a bit like Geordie lasses), and paint themselves in striking designs .

They were all massacred to make way for the European immigrants and their huge sheep estancias.





Basil Brush is still a huge star in Chile.













Peurto Natales.

Wet and miserable as winter arrives. It only seems like five minutes ago when we were following the spring down from the north and feeling for everone at home as winter took hold.