Well, before Chiloé we went to Chaiten, a port town to get the ferry over. One day we went to the national park, which was pretty nice...big trees and waterfalls and the like..and another day saw dolphins swimming just by the shore on the beach. Then the guy Id been travelling with went off a seperate way, and I got the boat...

Twas a nice boat trip...met some nice Chileans on the boat, and some other travellers. Had some dinner with the travellers, which was hotdogs with loads of guacamole and spicy sauce, which is apparently a speciality here. The next day I got an early bus, and the Chileans I met on the boat were on the same one. So I chatted to them, and when we got to Ancud, I ended up going to one of their family homes for Sunday lunch. We had curantu which is the local speciality, seafood, pork, beef, chicken, any other meat you can think of, some strange doey things, soup, all in one dish. Kind of like a stew but not too stewy. And then the next few days the Chileans showed me around town, just hung out with them really.

Now it turns out that the volcano erupted 2 days ago, which is crazy...its right next to the town, so all the people got out in time, but everything will be destroyed, and all the animals and plants will die. Its pretty big news here, everyones talking about it.

People in Ancud were so friendly. I had a few lunches and dinners with various familys. One of the nicest times was one evening, the mother of the family couldnt sleep coz she was worries about her daughter, who was from Chaiten where the volcanoe was, even tho she knew shed got out fine. Anyway, she couldnt sleep, and she lived in the bottom half of the house I was staying in, and had everyone else from the house round. The son had caught some lobsters that day, so we sat round and ate that and also some curantu which was reeeeal tasty and some maté of course.

Now Ive come to Castro, the capital of the island for a few days. But im pretty ill right now, so haven´t been able to do much. Oh yeah, also had some really interesting conversations on the island about politics and history. Tis all for now