Beagle Channel

The Beagle Channel goes east to west between Argentina and Chile on the southern side of Tierra del Fuego. It is one of the ways to avoid going around Cape Horn. Argentina is on the north, including Ushuaia where we started, and Chile is on the south.

There are steep hills, glaciers, waterfalls, forested hills, condors and clear blue water. It is an area that is untouched by man, partially because the area we cruised is the Alberto de Agostini National Park.

As we went up the channel the captain made a right turn up a fjord and we ended up at the Garibaldi Glacier. We then made our way to Punta Arenas on the Straits of Magellan.


ANBC0002 (The morning started out with blue skies over Beagle Channel)		ANBC0009 (We went right by Ushuaia, where we started out on the MV Discovery)

ANBC0023 (There were lots of glaciers and resulting waterfalls)		ANBC0037 (The overcast sky came back, this is where the captain took a right turn up a fjord)

ANBC0039 (As the sides closed in the colors got more brilliant)		ANBC0052 (Clear water, forested hills, and glaciers everywhere)

ANBC0055 (How can you not take a photo of scenery like this?)		ANBC0062 (Our first view of Garibaldi Glacier as we went around a corner)

ANBC0064 (Where the bottom of the glacier meets the water is 300 meters, or 984 feet, across)		ANBC0079 (We came within a mile of the glacier and then we rotated around on our own axis)

ANBC0082 (A final view of the Garibaldi Glacier)		ANBC0073 (Two condors circled above us, a fairly rare sight this low)

ANBC0075 (Can you see the condor resting on the limb just above the big rock?)		ANBC0076 (Glaciers, steep cliffs, waterfalls and wooded hills)

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