Today was our last day in Santiago, time to get a taxi and
head for the bus depot. While waiting outside our hotel, on the corner there
were 2 vendors each with shopping trolleys full of oranges trays of ice and a
juice squeezer making fresh juice, they have a lot of strange things on corners
here some people cutting up fruit for sale, as well as jugglers using balls
rings & skittles who are very good and people washing windscreens like at
home to mention a few. In the main area of town the green walking light has a
time on it the man starts off walking and as it gets closer to turning red he
walks faster in the end he is running. We got to the bus depot and boarded our
coach for our two hour trip to the port at San Antonio it was a very
comfortable coach and they dropped us off right at the baggage drop off. From
start of boarding to embarking took approximately 20 minutes the quickest and
easiest boarding we have ever had. Sail away was delayed for nearly 2 hours as the
port was so busy.
After a relaxing sleep we went to a few very interesting
talks one on the bird life we will see on our cruise mainly the different albatrosses
and petrels the largest albatross has a wing span of 12 feet and they all stay
at sea only landing to mate. We also went to a talk on volcanoes in Chile and
also earthquakes there are a huge amount of volcanoes in Chile and they have
had tsunami’s as well which is why they have signage all through the country
giving you the route you need to take if you have to evacuate for one of these.
We went and watched a good movie called
33 about the mine disaster in Chile and then went to the show and saw a great comedian
named Martin Beaumont he was very funny and quick probably one of the best comedians
we have seen on a cruise, he has been to Melbourne for our comedy festival. Was
another great day.
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