Next, off to the island of Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) and to what we thought was the “southernmost city in the Western Hemisphere”, Ushuaia.
Summer was definitely over and we were starting to experience some seriously cold nights. We didn’t want to get snowbound in Ushuaia so we wick it up a bit. The most direct route on to the island took us to the city of Rio Grande on the island of TDF. It turned out to be a long day in the saddle. From Calafate we crossed over to the East side of the continent, cross the Magellan Strait on a ferry, manage 2 border crossings and log 420 miles before arriving at Rio Grande that evening.
As we crossed the Magellan Strait it was fun to let the mind drift a bit. We were looking at essentially same landscape and stretch of water Ferdinand Magellan saw in the 1500s when he discovered the significant shortcut for round the world voyagers. Wow.
The landscape of Tierra del Fuego island runs from interesting ocean views, mountains, fungus treed forests to long boring stretches of plains. Here are the pictures to show you what I mean.
Sadly a lot of the island’s trees are dying. I believe from a fungus.
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