ipadio: Hear Dave and Kath’s daily phlog – 12th phonecast
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Coming up: Section 5, this should be interesting..!
We are currently minutes away from resuming the run, and what happens next promises to be interesting. Last week we had to cross to Argentina to bypass the Campo Hielo Sur (Southern Ice Field) , a dramatic natural barrier which literally slices through Chile and makes the country only pasable by 3 day ferry overland …
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Camouflage: The magical disappearing act of the least seedsnipe!
Key words: Camouflage, Pampas, Chile, Argentina, Least Seedsnipe Yesterday we were running through a very flat landscape of yellows, browns and dark greens. Tussocky spiky grasses and low thorny scrub stretched into the horizon with pebbles and boulders for miles. This is the Pampas- the grassland and shrubland of southern Chile and Argentina. A wild …
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Quick Update: Hitting our heads against a wifi wall!
Having problems connecting to wifi at the moment…sorry for the sloth-like email responses and updates. Basically we’re hitting our heads against the wall trying.. but not succeeding. On the road we had ice and snow; which froze everything including the pans, laptop, our fingers and well our brians… But the main problem now is internet …
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Section 4 Chile to Argentina: quicky in numbers
According to the plan we laid out for the first month we should be running machines by now, easily chewing up 100 mile weeks – are we? The last section has been a real challenge for our bodies, yet again forced to take 10 days worth of supplies for a lack of
ipadio: Hear Dave and Kath’s daily phlog – 10th phonecast
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El presentacion para estudiantes en Puerto Natales
En Puerto Natales dimos nuestra primera presentación a un grupo de estudiantes de 12, 13 y 17 años, sus profesores y un funcionario del gobierno del área del medio ambiente. Y aunque parezca mentira, lo hicimos en español. Un bautismo de fuego que fue
Presenting to students in Puerto Natales
We gave our first presentations in Puerto Natales to a class of 17 year olds, a group of 12-13 year olds, their teachers and the government envirnment officer. Incredibly we uttered it in spanish. A baptism in fire, with a mix of
A surprise visitor on a windy day in patagonia
On the desolate and icy Ruta 9 from Morro Chico to Puerta Natales, Chile, traffic is hardly nose to tail. In fact since we set off this morning we have seen only a handful of 4×4´s and the odd bus lumbering past. They scrutinise us as we do them, nods and waves are exchanged but this …
Section 4: 250km over the border into Argentina and North
. . . . where we´ll be heading next across the wild windy pampas!! we´ll be in touch!! View Larger Map