Photos...

The "Grandmothers" often ask for more photos on the blog. Once we leave the Falkland Islands, we will not be able to upload photos for a few months. We expect to be leaving here in about a week and will try to upload photos again before then but for now, we thought we would post a collection from the last 30 days.

 Jack Rabbit and Porter on the edge of a glacier in Estero Coloane in early December

 The Rabbit checks out what the ice of a glacier feels like

 Porter and Jack wheel their optimist boats down to the shore in Puerto Williams. Note that all pictures of them sailing the optis were taken from onboard Sila.

 The Rabbit putting the rudder on

 Porter and Jack in sailing school, with their instructor- Mauro- in the dinghy. Not a bad backdrop, eh? It reminded us a lot of the Sawatch Range in Leadville.

 The day we left Puerto Williams to go to Ushuaia, Argentina was dead calm in the Beagle Channel- and why we chose to go that day.

 On a hike in Tierra del Fuego National Park, outside of Ushuaia, Argentina

 Porter pointing at an upland goose in Tierra del Fuego National Park

 The boys in the cockpit as we leave Ushuaia, headed back to Puerto Williams. Porter and Jack are wearing lifejackets, not harnesses as normal, because they just finished helping me put away all of the dock lines and fenders, which is a much easier task when you are fully mobile in a lifejacket.

 The boys near the top of Cerro Bandera, on Isla Navarrino, overlooking the Beagle Channel and the mountains of Argentina to the northeast

 Cerro Bandera (roughly translated Flag Peak), was our Christmas Day hike

 From the top of Cerro Bandera, Christopher and Porter point to the Puerto Williams yacht club, the Micalvi, where Sila was tied up

 The forest we hiked through to get to Cerro Bandera was beautiful with wind swept trees. No doubt that there is a prevailing wind direction there.

 The Christmas tree, complete with the Angelic Squirrel, with the final presents, reserved for opening at Christmas dinner

 A windier day for sailing school- great fun!

 Puerto Toro- the southernmost town in the world- and on our way to Cape Horn

 Hundreds of crab traps stacked onshore in Puerto Toro, waiting for the centolla season to start again

 A very tall looking Jack Rabbit on the passage from Puerto Williams to the Falkland Islands

 A Black-crowned night heron sitting on our dock line in the Falkland Islands

 These signs are all over the place in the Falklands. Mitigation efforts have restarted and just the other day, we saw teams of people in full protective gear sweeping a field for mines.

 If the Barnes family had any musical talent at all, this would be our Album cover- taken at Pembroke Lighthouse in the Falklands

Enjoying a delicious dinner of local lamb chops and potatotes