blah blah blog: Hola from Tierra del Fuego

After close to 40 hours sitting on flights, we made it last Monday to Ushuaia. Hopped on “Commitment”, Matthew's buddy Jordan's boat. We spent a few days on Commitment with Jordan and his crew (Matt and Kareese) catching up on sleep, adjusting to the cold, and grabbing a few supplies in Ushuaia. Pretty cool city, but definitely run-over by the cruise ships taking people to and from Antarctica. Every other store front is a hostel or a tourist-trap.

We motor-sailed over to Puerto Williams Chile on Friday – 4 hours, easy. The Commitment crew had customers, so promptly went out on a trip through the channels. We got to work on Polo Flat. Surprisingly, there was very little mold and even a clean head! So far, Puerto Williams is a gorgeous place, much nicer than Ushuaia likely due to the lack of tourism and no cruise ships. The marina here is quite small with an old ship that has been turned into the clubhouse. All of the boats raft off of the main “ship”. It's rad looking. Many characters around – lots of French, an American family of 5 who broke their mast rounding the horn a few months back, a notorious Norwegian (google “Berserk”), us and our tiny green boat, among others. Polo Flat is certainly one of the smallest between here and Ushuaia. I can see even more now the incredible feat it was for only two people to take such a small boat down south.

For now, we continue to clean, stock, and fix. And of course dabble in delicious (and cheap!) regional reds and the local beer called Austral. We'll head back to Ushuaia end of this week to fully stock up at the bigger supermarket and load up on fuel.