Ok, maybe it’s not really the end of the World but Ushuaia does consider itself to be the southernmost town. It sits along the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego, along the Beagle Channel.
We hopped aboard a smaller catamaran and cruised through the Beagle Channel to see several islands full of Sea Lions, Cormorants (black & white sea birds that look like Penguins from a distance) and lots of other sea life. We disembarked the smaller ship and then drove through the Tierra del Fuego National Park. At this point we picked up a tour guide who had certainly spent too much time bonding with nature.
She told us her name, but followed it up with “everyone calls me Crazy Horse.” Ms. Horse (the “Crazy” part would soon be clear) pointed out all the different varieties of plants that, for all we could tell, were various weeds. We pretty much knew we were in trouble when our guide started to do animal impersonations (she did a very nice male Llama call). Things went downhill when she started to do TV animal personality “voices” such as Flipper. This was followed by a detailed description of the difference between Flipper and a Kingfisher (complete with audio examples). We feared that she was about to start some sort of “animal call sing-along.”
Next up… Animal Kingdom Karaoke where Earl from Bass Lake, Georgia will sing along to “Jingle Bells” in the styling of Billy the Big-Mouth Bass.
Maybe that’s why most people got off of the bus at the very next stop. In all fairness, this was the town Ushuaia where you could do some shopping (rather than staying on the bus all the way back to the ship).
