Off Dave and Emily trotted to see some penguins. It was a bit of a mission to get there - a 3.5k walk, then 2 hour ferry ride, but 100% worth it. The whole of Isla Magdelena is completely covered with over 150 000 penguins. Mums, dads, teenagers and babies and all amazingly cute. The Magellan penguins swim all the way down from their beaches in Brazil, past Argentina and through the straight to the barren island every September. Why? Because this far south has s...

Punta Arenas is our most Southern destination on our travels, and what we have been aiming for since we landed in Mexico last August. Located at the bottom of the world it is the most southerly part of mainland America with only some rugged landscapes and large islands to the south that run to the southern tip of the continent, and then only the cold dangerous ocean to Antartica and the South Pole. The town is the largest in the entire Patagonian region, but onl...