Ushuaia has been nicknamed Fin Del Mundo, the end of the world, because of how far south it is in South America.
For many, this community on the Beagle Channel serves as a last stop before departing for Antarctica.
For the Flat Friends it was a return to civilization, and a chance to discover a new bird!
NOT Jules Verne’s Lighthouse at the End of the World, but within a couple hundred miles of it.
A family of South American Sea Lions hanging out by Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse was a definite highlight of the wildlife tour.
Flat Hal and Flat Halena have been doing everything we can to not just record where we are going and what we are seeing, but to make memories, and keepsakes of where we have been, and what we have seen.
Flat Hal has made a sticker for each place he has visited. Today the Flat Friends decided to start making stickers for the animals we see, with the art inspired by our photos!
Flat Hal and Flat Halena got more than we were hoping for out of the wildlife tour in the Beagle Channel.
Seeing a single new-to-us bird would have been amazing… but more than one! Fantastic!
(New birds: Rock Shag and Blackish Cinclodes)
Even more fun, seeing two birds that are similar but different close together, and getting to appreciate what makes each unique.
(To tell the shags apart look close, the Imperial Shag’s bright white belly—the Rock Shag prefers an all-black look.)
