Showing posts with label seno lauta harbour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seno lauta harbour. Show all posts

July 16, 2018

anasazi girl seno lauta harbour

After servicing our life raft, fixing our alternator, doing a photography commission, and buttoning up our belongings in Natales, we returned to Isla Navarino to Anasazi Girl. Our plan was to sail back to Ushuaia, and depart from there for the completion of our circumnavigation with the family.

Anasazi Girl, on a mooring in Seno Lauta Harbour, ready for departure to Ushuaia.
Puerto Williams, Isla Navarino - Region XII CHILE (enero de 2017)

June 26, 2018

hillsides of seno lauta harbour

On the hillside above Seno Lauta Harbour, my kids always made a daily stop on our walks to smell the flowers, pick fresh mint & calafate berries, or would simply sit in the tall grass & watch the beautiful view of the Beagle Channel and Martial mountain range. My younger daughter Pearl still tells me that she misses her mint patch.

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

March 27, 2016

magellanic penguin

Raivo was very excited to see his first penguin in Puerto Williams. We spotted it at dusk, just along the shore of Seno Lauta, after one of our long days out walking.  He was beside himself with curiousity and could not help but go in for a quick look up close.

He did not remember seeing the Magellanic penguin colony (70,000 mating pairs) at Monte León National Park in Argentina when he was 6 months old or the Jackass penguin colony in Simons Town when he was a year old.

It is quite unusual to see penguins within the area of Puerto Williams, so we figured that there was something wrong with the little guy, and that he was probably sick or injured. 

We heard from some other sailors, Auli & Irjala from SV Manta, that they saw the same penguin a day later, a bit further down the shoreline of the Beagle, with a wound under its right wing.  It was falling over, getting attacked by the vultures. Sad news for my kids to hear, but also a gift for them to learn in real time about the cycle of nature and life.

Raivo takes a look at a lone juvenile Magallanic penquin on the shore of Seno Lauta Harbour.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (febrero de 2016)
Magellanic Penquin (juvenile) - Seno Lauta Harbour
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (febrero de 2016)

February 6, 2016

black-crowned night heron / nicotyrx nicotryrx / huairavo

Black-crowned night heron / Nicotyrx nicotryrx / Huairavo sitting in the mud at low tide.
  Seno Lauta Harbour, Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (enero de 2016)

October 22, 2015

fetching for springtime

Incredible to imagine we were sledding and making snowmen the day before this one.
Tormentina enjoys the warmth of an early spring day playing fetch with an adopted street dog for sunset.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (septiembre de 2015)

October 13, 2015

fjord-cicles

Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)
Sampling the slightly salty ice found on the shore of the fjord.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)
Beautiful sheets.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)

penguin in the mud

There seems to be a delayed reaction to the cold, muddy, and wet when my kids are fully into it.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)

October 9, 2015

late winter ice

Ice & stone in the fjord.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)
Ice & stone
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)
Ice & stone
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)
Dock Line & Ice
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)

September 21, 2015

wintery walks

Racing on snowy roads along Seno Lauta with Elias & Eric (SV Galactic)
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)
Rio Ukika
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)
Usnea / Old man's beard / Barba de viejo
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)
Fallen feathers and Nothofagus leaves.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)
Fallen lichen.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

September 17, 2015

contrast

The contrast between the Beagle Channel and the protected waters of Seno Lauta Harbour.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

September 11, 2015

states of winter water

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

September 10, 2015

más detalles de invierno

Los Dientes de Navarino
 Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)
Ice floating in Seno Lauta Harbour
 Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)
Winter tide-line.
 Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)
Ice & stone flowers in bloom.
 Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)
Sea stone & ice.
 Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)
Frosted sea stone.
 Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)
Blooming sea stone.
 Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

September 9, 2015

sv la cardinale

Pearl on the companion-way steps of Bernard de Ravignan's SV La Cardinale
Isla Navarino, CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

August 21, 2015

anasazi girl igloo

A. Girl at the Club Naval de Yates Micalvi
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (junio de 2015)
Snow covered Anasazi Girl and the raft of expedition vessels.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (junio de 2015)

August 6, 2015

hand in hand

Hand-in-hand, headed home to Anasazi Girl.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (junio de 2015)