Hi all
ok, so our final day of work in Pucon has arrived! Today (thursday) we are technically working for our boss ben for the last time, but seeing as we don´t want to get our paddling kit wet because we have to pack it away tonight, we´ll actually just be sitting in internet cafes, packing our bags and walking round town. Also most of the staff of kayak chile are feeling a little the worse for wear today as last night we had an asado (chilean barbecue) to end the season and rather a lot of cerveza was consumed!

Tomorrow we are jumping on a bus and heading south. We are aiming for the Torres del Paine national park which is in the far south of chile, in Southern Patagonia no less, oh yes. But seeing as we don´t want to spend money on airplane tickets we are actually going to have to go through argentina as the roads in chile end about 300 miles short of Puerto Natales, the jumping off point for the park. We are planning to take it fairly steady and visit a few places in chile and argentina on the way before trekking around the national park for 8 or 9 days. Fingers crossed we will get good weather, the climate in Patagonia is notorios for being completely unpredictable and you can experience every kind of weather from sunshine to snow all in one day.

After that we are going to make our way back north again to meet up with our boss ben to go and paddle the Futaleufu river - one of chiles, and the worlds, class¡c rivers. Which incidentally has a very active volcano about 70kms away. Should be fun!
So anyway, thats the vague plan. We´ll still be in email contact, although our access to facilities might be a little more sporadic.
Hope all is well with everyone.
lots of love
Dave y Frannie