Return to Ushuaia

Sunday, 8 March 2020

Our "trip of a lifetime" is over, and we're back in Ushuaia, waiting for the first of our three flights to return home. We were lucky to have completed our trip when we did, as the coronavirus pandemic was beginning to be felt outside Asia, and much travel was being curtailed. We had been traveling in what was probably the safest area of the world, and got home without incident. A week or two later the return would have been much more difficult as countries started shutting down borders.

It's cool and windy, but last night's fog had lifted and the Beagle Channel views were spectacular.

Downtown Ushuaia waterfront as seen from the pier.

While we waited for our buses to the airport, we had a visit to the Ushuaia History Museum, an old prison that has been turned into a nice museum that encompasses prison memorabilia, maritime history, military history, an art gallery, and, of course, a gift shop. This is a view down the gallery that preserves the old prison.

Apparently a while ago Ushuaia had a penguin statue exhibit around town. (It was quite a thing a few years back to have standard statues painted by various artists and groups to be placed around a city.) The museum had quite a few on display.

After visiting the museum, we walked back through town and along Ushuaia's park-like waterfront. I liked this rendition of an albatross sheltering the native residents of Ushuaia.

We got a final view of the National Geographic Explorer.

Looking east down the Beagle Channel.

As we got to the airport, a subtile rainbow appeared in the clouds.