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03/07/08

Wild life at the Beagle Canal. Ushuaia, Argentina


Ushuaia is the most southern city in the world. From Ushuaia we can sail to the waters of the Beagle Canal, scene of Charles Darwin’s studies on species (the Beagle was the name of the ship). Besides the cold and the missing sun, there was no wind in this autumn morning and the sea was calm and quite. From the canal we can still see the snowy peaks of Andes, already in Chile, and the Martial Glacier, just behind the city. As we slipped away from Ushuaia, we seemed to enter a magical territory of sea animals. The canal has many small islands where sea lions, cormorants and penguins gather safely showing themselves to the curious visitor. In a few more moments we reached the Les Eclaireurs, the furthest south of any Argentine lighthouse. The sensation is magic, not only for the beauty of the landscape but for the feeling of being so fare way from home, almost in the end of word.

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