Puerto Montt, capital of the Chilean Lakes district, is possibly the grimiest city I’ve ever visited. It is perpetually drizzling, blanketed with sea mist, the streets are lined with a kind of dirty, greasy residue and the smell of sea-decay blows in from the fishing port that dominates the city. Yet I dug the vibe,…
This post comes to you from a fabled valley hidden deep in Chile’s Northern Patagonia. After a five-hour slog through dense temperate rainforest, contending with eight-foot mud trenches and precarious river crossings, my friend Romain and I arrived at an awe-inspiring Garden of Eden: Cochamó Valley. No car has ever penetrated this valley, no road…
Hi guys, here’s another post from down in Chile’s northern Patagonia. I don’t often photograph architecture but this scene just really captured my attention. I was being shown around some remote subsistence farm properties in the Relconcaví Estuary when I noticed this house. It is an abandoned settler home that is now boarded up and…
Hi guys, today’s post comes from a sailing trip I had the pleasure of doing last December with ‘Sailing Patagonia‘ in Chile. Carlos Lonza invited me aboard his fine vessel named ‘Agartha’ for 5 days of cruising Patagonian fjordlands, pirate tales, ghost ship encounters and dining on Chile’s finest seafood and wine. This photograph is…
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