Beagle Channel and Punta Arenas

So we cruised the Beagle Channel last night as we made our way up to to Chile. We saw the glaciers I mentioned before and they were very beautiful colours. . . great view from the ship! Currently we are cruising the Magellan Strait and are in port at Punta Arenas. There was lots of excitement on the cruise ship this morning as there was a 12 hour day trip to Antartica (for a mere $2,500US per person) where you take a flight over and spend the day trekking around . . . we opted for the Otway Sound Penguin Reserve. It was about an hour bus ride from the port, through the city and along the countryside. It was a very beautiful drive the reserve was really amazing. You think of penguins in ice and snow but actually they follow the water temperature (18C) so they arrived in September and lay their eggs in burrows that they dig in the ground, about 1 meter deep and then have their babies and stay there until March. We walked along paths in the reserve and got to see them walk (pretty far too!) to the water to fish and play . . . so cute! I swear I never get bored with pengiuns, they are too cute! We were back by lunch time and since right now is King Crab season and this is where they pull them out of the water, we treated ourselves to a wonderful lunch of crab and then headed back out to do some shopping. The weather here has been perfect, we really couldn´t ask for a better day! We are exhausted though and just stopped off at the internet before tendering back to the boat! We are now 2 days at sea and then we arrive at Puerto Montt.