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June 26, 2018

pre-voyage preparations

Kids on the rig - they all were anxious to climb the mast after having waited nearly three years.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2016)

Tormentina & James sort out over 1000 meters of lines as we re-rig the boat.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2016)

Running lines.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2016)

The kids label the running lines for our upcoming voyage.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2016)

Our home in it's pre-voyage state as we interface electronics and check all our systems.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2016)

June 1, 2018

So magical, this desolate place at the bottom of the world... My kids remember this island as a such a special place, so unlike any other in the world. With each rise & fall of the tide the sea churned up a new trove of unique treasures. The channel became a coastline with endless possibilities to explore and a private playground where they could quietly appreciate the beauty of nature.

Canal Beagle
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antárctica Chilena (noviembre de 2016)

July 3, 2015

last fall days before the arrival of snow

Forest fungus.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

"Tiny, just like me!"
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

June 30, 2015

canelo / drimys winteri

From Alice M. Coats, Garden Shrubs and Their Histories (1964) 1992, s.v. "Drimys":

When Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world in 1577-80, of the four ships accompanying the Golden Hind at the outset, the only ship that successfully rounded Cape Horn with him was the Elizabeth, captained by John Winter; the two ships separated in a storm and Winter turned back. Presumably he had sickness on board, for he sent a boat ashore to search out medicinal herbs. He returned in 1579 with a supply of Drimys bark, and for centuries before vitamin C was isolated, "Winter's Bark" was esteemed as a preventive and remedy for scurvy— correctly so, for an infusion of D. winteri sustained Captain James Cook and his crew in the South Pacific, and the naturalist accompanying his voyage of exploration, Johann Reinhold Forster, was the first to officially describe and name D. winteri.

Canelo / Drimys winteri
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

June 29, 2015

clean crisp autumn air

Pearl in the magical forest.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

June 28, 2015

usnea / old man's beard / barba de viejo

The fact that lichen serves as a bio-indicator of the quality of air in an ecosystem makes me unbelievably happy to be shipwrecked here of all the places in the world.

Forests dripping with Old Man's Beard / Barba de Viejo / Usnea.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Old Man's Beard / Barba de Viejo / Usnea
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

forest mushrooms

Pearl laying on a soft carpet of lenga leaves.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

June 26, 2015

little explorers

Tormentina inspects larvae found under the bark of a fallen tree while Pearl keeps a safe distance.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Larva & friendship bracelet.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

The exploring hands of my girls as T encourages Pearl that it's okay to touch the larva.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Pearl much more comfortable feeling the surface of a mushroom.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

June 23, 2015

cold autumn days

Magic crystal portal. My kids are loving the many states of water.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Brilliant sunlight in the autumn cavern of wood.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Forets mushrooms, clover, and fallen Nothofagus leaves.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Forest mushroom.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Contrast.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Evergreen gone red. Antarctic hard-fern (Blechnum penna-marina)
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

darwin's fungus / cyttaria darwinii

Darwin's Fungus / Cyttaria darwinii
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Darwin's Fungus / Cyttaria darwinii & Lenga leaves
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Darwins' fungus.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

the tactile sense

Sphagnum peat bogs & junco (Marsippospermum grandiflorum) wetlands.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Soft moss.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Moss, junco, and fallen Nothofagus leaves.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Sphagnum peat bogs. Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

June 21, 2015

low tide

Dark green algae cut by a curve of fallen leaves.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Raivo helping Pearl through the quick mud.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Searching for marine life underneath the kelp.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) & fallen lenga leaves.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (mayo de 2015)

June 5, 2015

the shore of the beagle, puerto toro

The best part of living on Isla Navarino is that the island is part of the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, which recognizes this part of Chile as one of the most pristine ecoregions in the world.

It is a true gift for my children to experience this incredibly clean enviornment. Every single time we step off the boat we discover a very distinct selection of marine life which includes a beautiful array of seaweed, algaes and shelfish: