Gray sky over the Horns
On November 9, I took over a hundred pictures, and this day I took over ninety.
Mostly, the day was dark, though, and a lot of the pictures don’t
have the snap that I
would like to see in the shots exhibited here. It was dramatic terrain, no question about it:
we were within the Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, but not near the Towers at all, and yet
we had a view of them most of the time. Big image;
small.
Looking northward towards the sun. Big image;
small.
After walking for a while, we stopped and rested. It was getting hot, and a lot
of us stripped off a few layers of clothes. In the far left thumbnail, most prominent
are Charlie and Maria at the left (big image;
small). In the center-left, Elisabeth, with
Mark in the background (big image;
small). Center right, Mark had just unzipped the lower
part of his pants, leaving himself open to sunburn of the knee-creases
(big image; small).
Far right, Maria (small only, not well-enough focused
for a big).
Everywhere in Patagonia we saw trees of the genus Nothofagus.
The name means “false beech”, and as numerous and vigorous as they
are here in Chile and in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, they’re only rarely
planted in North America. They’d make great decoratives, since the leaves
are tiny for a broad-leaved tree, only about an inch or so in length.
(Big image; small).
Conclusive proof that he was there.
(Big image; small).
Around four in the afternoon, we passed through a Nothofagus
forest. The woods were silent, dark, and deep, and I had to break out my camera’s
monopod to get an unblurred shot.
(Big image; small).
Previous day’s pictures: first half;
second half.
Second half of this day’s pictures.
Next day’s pictures.
Mark’s pages for this day:
first part;
second part.
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