![]() ![]() We had some glorious sun sailing along the coast: The weather is mercurial here, and it can be overcast one minute and fully sunny ten minutes later. Villa Puerto Edén has an extremely wet subpolar oceanic climate ( Köppen Cfc) and is widely reputed to be the place in the world with the highest frequency of rainfall, though according to Guinness World Records the highest frequency of rain in a year occurred at Bahia Felix, a little further south, with only eighteen rainless days in the whole of 1916. I felt like a gawker visiting a display, and was glad that we didn’t disturb the locals this time. I felt bad because, aside from the ladies selling their wares at the landing site, we didn’t see a single inhabitant it was clear that they all went inside. We stopped here two years ago, and they disgorged loads of people from the ship into the town, which you can circumambulate in about 10 minutes. ![]() (Be sure to click on the photos to enlarge them.) Two notable facts from our crew and Wikipedia: it’s said to be the most isolated village in Chile except for Easter Island, and it’s where the last Kawéshkar people, once nomads and now residents of this lovely and remote place. In one of them lay the isolated hamlet of Villa Puerto Edén, population listed as about 176. We made only one landing, this morning, but the channels we went through, mostly between the mainland and islands off the mainland, were lovely. In other words, we land in Valparaiso in three days and then, the next evening (if all goes well and I don’t have Covid), I fly home.īut the last two days have been pretty swell anyway. We’re out of the land of ice and penguins, and into the land of fishing boats, small villages, and sleepy dogs. ![]()
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