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Hallucinations....

Vicki and Greg Lansen wrote:Stop! This is making me homesick. No, don't stop. Stop, no, don't stop!

View from the downstairs apartment windows. Now taking reservations....

patagoniax wrote:

Vicki and Greg Lansen wrote:Stop! This is making me homesick. No, don't stop. Stop, no, don't stop!

View from the downstairs apartment windows. Now taking reservations....

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A road would mar that picture, but a wooden fence line won't.
A person would mar that picture, but horses don't.
A pine plantation would mar that picture, but a beaten-down pasture doesn't.
A sign would mar that picture, but horseshit doesn't.

Was the real Patagonia ever a dime store postcard?

Red wrote:

A road would mar that picture, but a wooden fence line won't.
A person would mar that picture, but horses don't.
A pine plantation would mar that picture, but a beaten-down pasture doesn't.
A sign would mar that picture, but horseshit doesn't.

Was the real Patagonia ever a dime store postcard?

Mar is in the eye of the beholder.

~
lake fissshes lurk...
beneath such windy~waves...
seek, ye shall find!

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pink phoenicopteridae chilensis...
long~legs deep in crystal blue
serenely~seeking patagonian~plankton?

Red wrote:

Was the real Patagonia ever a dime store postcard?

Sí, po. La patagonia perfecta, a través de las postales de antaño.

!Claro que si! Though I had to look up antannyo. I'll have to remember it.

And "ultima esperanza" what is the translation, literal or otherwise, here- end of the world/ last hope?

Pioneer pix are the same everywhere, it seems. Those lenadores, clearing land with hand tools; tough folks.

Red wrote:!Claro que si! Though I had to look up antannyo. I'll have to remember it.

And "ultima esperanza" what is the translation, literal or otherwise, here- end of the world/ last hope?

Pioneer pix are the same everywhere, it seems. Those lenadores, clearing land with hand tools; tough folks.

We have to get you spun up to using the extended keyboard features, with eñes and such.

Anyway, some answers:

The foto of the leñadores -- not so much clearing the land there, but collecting firewood, as is the nature of leñadores.

Última Esperanza is the name of our province, within the XII Región. There are four provinces in XII Region, which is also called "Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena" but that takes bloody ages to type so I just say XII Región. The provinces here are as follows: Antártica Chilena, Magallanes, Tierra del Fuego, and of course Última Esperanza. Within the province there are two comunas: Puerto Natales and Torres del Paine. And that will be on the semester final.

Naturally Última Esperanza (also the name of our local fjord) means "last hope." For some, of course, that is their reason for coming to Chile, having the feeling that other options have been exhausted. The name comes from a 16th century Spanish explorer who was seeking an alternative way from Atlantic to Pacific via the fjordlands and eventually ran out of waterways, or so goes the story. When he got to our fjord, he supposedly called it his "last hope" for finding the passage he was seeking, and ran out of channels at a point near the bottom end of the Southern Patagonian Icecap, which is visible from my place here between Puerto Consuelo and Puerto Natales.

There are worse places to live.

The more I post, the more obvious will be my equally haphazard foreign language and computer skills.

I figured the lenadores would have been clearing land and selling firewood as a consequence of that. But maybe there was plenty of dead and down for the taking. Great pictures.

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