Christmas Day so the morning is touch base with our families at home and Skype seems to be working well enough to achieve our objective.
We have a brunch and keep looking at the rain, first time since we started in Buenos Aires on the first day. We need to go to the Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego, so set off in the rain on ripio. Having entered the park it is quite a trek to the end of the road, this is the end of Routa 3 and it is 3079 kilometres from Buenos Aires. We have done quite a bit more than that with our round trips and detours to various places.
On the way we pass many coaches who do extremely well to get down here as the road is narrow and very slippery due to the rain.
Having got to the end we have the obligatory photo by the sign with our bikes alongside. This attracts a lot of attention and many offers to take photos of us. We now realise why there were so many vouches, there is a cruise ship in Ushuia and they must have a flotilla of coaches ferrying everyone from the ship to the park. We met some an English couple from Brighton, a lot of Americans, Chinese and a very nice group from Mexico City, he has given me his card and said if we need anything or have a problem get in touch, how nice is that?
There are various trails to walk and hopefully see some wildlife such as beavers. We walk a few of these and apparently walk through an active beaver colony and there is certainly evidence with a massive dam and lots of cannibalised trees but unfortunately we did not see the actual animal, despite patience and perseverance.
Having taken quite a few photos we leave the park and head off for the ski area which is obviously up a winding road to a height of 300 metres and there is a lift and 1 run down with a descent height of 200 metres, that could get a little boring but probably great to start out. I understand there are other ski areas nearby but we do not leave a calling card.
A quick spin around the town and we see the cruise ship disembarking and they are on their way to the next port.
Back to the campsite for Christmas dinner, interestingly it would seem that most of Europe and probably South America celebrate Christmas Eve and not Christmas Day, so it is a lot quieter here this evening. Having opened our packages we have a Christmas pudding, thanks to the Tolleys, and Jack Daniels and some crackers, so off to enjoy.
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