We have now started to explore Chiloe Island which it is 120 miles long and about 30 miles wide. It reminds us of South West Ireland before the boom years when every field gained a horrid new bungalow. Also like Ireland it rains quite a bit but it is nice warm rain so nothing to worry us hardy brits. One thing it does have which Ireland doesn't is penguins! So this morning Gill and I braved the Pacific rollers and headed out to a small island where they breed. As you can see Gill was fully equipped to face the stormy weather, she has not put on weight, she has a life jacket on under the cape.
Unusually both Humboldt and Magellanic breed in the same place, it is a bit late in the season so most have left the area but we saw enough to take plenty of photographs to bore you all with when we get home.
There are two other tourist attractions, wooden churches of which there are hundreds, and houses on stilts. Either tomorrow or the day after we will try to visit the best churches so I will not cover that here although we did visit a museum all about them today so as to have plenty of facts for the blog in due course. The houses on stilts are quite photogenic and in some areas are becoming quite trendy although those in the picture below are in a poorer area.
We are now staying in an amazing B&B but I will save the details for another day as we are booked for three nights.