Santa Penguin gets a smooch from Leslie. This is the artisanal crafts store in Puerto Natalas. We passed by on our first trip through town a week earlier. I found a fine pendant of a Selknan in silver and turquoise. It was another fine day in Patagonia with the sun shining strong. The wind was intense lakeside but in town it was fine. We stopped in the Turisimo Office so I could purchase my ticket for the glacier boat tour. It leave from the office at 7AM so Leslie chose to sleep in instead.
Looking out at the lake from the hotel
The Lobby and bar in the distance
Lots of driftwood related sculptures all over the hotel
Lakeside sculptures
There is a cave just outside town that giant sloth remains were uncovered. Now there are giant sloth statues and figurines everywhere
Metal figurines that hold the trash cans. This one is a miner.
Smoking the pipe
Part of a two block long mural. The mountains on top are real.
A collective of folk artists
The Seleknam were a tribe living in the southernmost portions of South America.
A fine mosaic on the exterior of the building
We finally saw a Puma!
A drunken penguin!!!
Swiss architectural influences abound
Our hotel has a lighthouse
Wind driven whitecaps
Glacier laden mountains off in the distance
A fixer-upper canoe
We thought that this would be small snack before dinner. Oh my, it was more than enough for both of our dinners. The Pichanga is a dish with chicken, beef, sausage, onions, pickles, pickled onions, avocados and French fries! Ooof its like a Chilean Poutine, only enough to feed three.
Lots of huge mountains all around as the sun is starting to set
