Wine tasting tour
We visited two wineries a few miles from our hotel.
The conversation, lunch, and wines were outstanding.
We also discovered Mendoza olive oil!
End of the World Post Office
In the Tierra del Fuego National Park, we got our pasports stamped at the “End of the World” post office.
Ushuaia
We rented a car in Ushuaia to go in and out of the city twice. One of the rules on the rental car agreement was “cars going downhill or uphill always have the right of way for cars on the horizontal.”
That was very confusing to me, but it was always observed on the steep mountain streets.
There were also spanish signs that i think meant “yield,” and round abouts and stop lights that may or may not have overruled that downhill/uphill rule.
It was all very confusing.
We filled up the car with”naftha super,” which Lisa found for us.
Everything is stressful in a rental car!
And no one showed up for our early drop off, and I thought we might miss our plane!
Last night in Ushuaia
We had pizza, Lisa got to sit in a church, and we had the world’s most confusing hotel lock.
Beavers
Beavers were introduced to Tierro del Fuego in 1946 to attempt to start a fur industry. The effort failed for various reasons, but the beavers flourished. They are now creating massive destruction in the forrests, which can’t recover like north american forrests, where the trees co-evolved with the beavers.
We took a sunset walk and saw a beaver emerging from its’ mound.
Speaking of sunset – there seemed to be only like 2 hours of night we were so far south!
Museum of marine mammals
On the Harberton ranch, there is a museum of marine mammals. It was founded by the mother of the current owner, Aby.
