Tag: Argentina
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Ferdinand Magellan and The Age of Discovery!
Flat Hal and Flat Halena feel like time travelers bouncing around time. Events make a lot more sense in order, so let’s slow down a moment. Ferdinand Magellan — 1520 — Discovered Magellan’s Straits between the Atlantic and the Pacific. (He saw a species of Penguin, named Magellanic for him!) HMS Beagle — 1831 to…
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The Flat Friends have been making stickers for the first segment of our grand adventure.
(As a side note: the Flat Friends had a lot of fun sharing the stickers we designed with our fellow passengers! Everyone enjoyed having a fun way to remember the amazing places we visited.)
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Ushuaia, Argentina, A Wildlife Tour At The End Of The World
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…
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Sailing Into The Sunset
#flatstanley #flathal #geography #west The Flat Friends went forward on one of the upper decks tonight to take sunset pictures. It looked like we were sailing into the sunset — or aiming for it? Remembering our research about the stars, and Peter Pan, they got curious… if a ship points its bow towards the setting…
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Buenos Aires Bird Sightings — Parakeets in one of the parks
#flatstanley #flathal #buenosaires #birding Learning about Birds in South America Flat Hal and Flat Stanley are starting to appreciate my attitude of let’s photograph every bird we can, we never know what we will discover when we look back through the photographs. Two of the birds we saw in Buenos Aires were so similar to…
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Eva Perón
From poor familyTo hard working actress. Her husband was elected the President of Argentina and she helped him. #flatstanleyproject #flathal #evaperon #argentina Evita — “Little Eva” — was one of the people, who fought for the working class and represented them when her husband was President of Argentina, making her a beloved figure among the…
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Buenos Aires, Argentina — 16th largest city in the world — Over 13 million inhabitants
#flatstanley #flathal #buenosaires #argentina The size of Buenos Aires might account for why two days were planned for our visit to this port city, and national capital. On one of those days the flat fellas took the hop on hop off bus. This is a bus with a route around the highlights of the city,…
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Ushaia, Argentina, is often the last city travelers stop at before going to Antarctica.
#flathal #flatstanley #ushaia #argentina Just one reason it has been dubbed the End of the World.
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Chilean Skua on the way to Ushaia, Argentina
#flatstanley #flathal #chileanskua #argentina #ushaia Flat Hal and Flat Stanley tried to make the most of a “late” in the day arrival in Ushaia for a “short” call in port. The morning was spent sailing Glacier Alley. At 2 pm the ship arrived in Ushaia, with all aboard at 7:30. When sailing All Aboard is…