
Dear Reader (2025-02-01),
In the next 2 posts you and I will slowly transition from Patagonia to Antarctica by showing you some town scenes. In an earlier post, I mentioned the towns, of El Chalten (Argentina), El Calafate (Argentina), and Puerto Natales (Chile).
I really liked El Chalten. It felt something like a Waterton that never existed mixed with granola, and a town that grew organically by creative people with limited resources. “This small town was founded on October 12, 1985 as a geopolitical decision at a time when Argentina was facing a sovereignty conflict and dispute with the neighboring country of Chile over the Lake Del Desierto and the Southern Continental Patagonian Ice. (1)”
I also enjoyed going on a wander along the waterfront in Puerto Natales, and along some of its side streets.
My photos of El Calafate are boring to me, and so there are a couple of photos from the first and a few from the third town in the list. There is also a view out a bus window, and a border crossing from Chile to Argentina on my way from Puerto Natales to El Calafate. El Calafate is where I caught a plane to Ushuaia and it was also where I first landed in Patagonia from Buenos Aires.
Footnotes
~ 1 – https://elchalten.com/v4/en/el-chalten.php
Notes On Photos
~ 1, 2 – El Chalten
~ 3 to 9 – Puerto Natales
~ 3 – An unknown traveler writing in the orange glow of the setting sun. Notice the glass wall, which provides shelter from the frequent winds.
~ 4 – I saw a similar architectural style in both Ushuaia and El Calafate. It might be Scandinavian inspired, and it also has touch of Austrian or Swiss.
~ 5 – Inside a church
~ 7 – A sculpture on the waterfront
~ 8 – On the waterfront – Unlike most of my handheld focus stacking experiments which are opportunities to learn (ie failures and yes the technique is best done using a tripod), this one is ok.
~ 9 – Most but not all of the houses in Puerto Natales are of this scale
~ 11 – A border crossing
~ 12 – Such a busy airport












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