ipadio: Hear Dave and Kath’s daily phlog – 38th phonecast
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100 days running in images
Selected Images from the first 100 days of running, winter, spring, and a brief look at the new desert conditions, and with a novel idea for chafe-avoidance on the last slide, sorry! [oqeygallery id=10]
The Long Winding Road
It all began in ice, snow and blizzards. We found ourselves swimming naked through sub-zero rivers in a Patagonian winter, wading through snow drifts, stumbling over jagged coastal cliffs, crawling under crowded limbs of southern beech forests and chasing puma tracks on our way to the most southerly point of continental South America, Cabo Froward. …
Relief: In the Andes Rain Shadow.
Key Words: Precipitation, Pacific Ocean, Chile, Prevailing Wind, Andes, Vapour, Condensation, Glaciers, Adapt, Rain shadow, Relief Rain For the first part of our expedition we ran through rain and snow in southern Chile. Precipitation is the term used for rain, sleet, hail and snow; any form of water that falls from the sky. This precipitation …
A Day In The Life
03:23 Need a wee. Good sign, this means at least I am drinking enough for once. I squirm around a bit in the hope that the wee will find a space which it hadn’t before found to rest for a bit, and leave me alone to sleep. It won’t so I crawl to the doorway …
Winners of the Christmas Charity Draw Wildlife Paintings
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who entered our Christmas Charity Draw. We sold 98 tickets, raising a grand total of US$708, or GBP 442.50. This is now winging its way to Conservacion Patagonica our fantastic charity who are restoring extremely threatened wildlands and wildlife in southern Chile. The two lucky winners are: Gill Reid …
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Difficult Times Turn to Great! Part 3
16 December 2012, Goat Corral, El Zampal, Argentina. The wind tore at the tent during the night. The dead thorny branches used to form the corral around us was powerless against the mini twisters that shook our home like a leaf, dumping sand and dried dung pellets all over it and us. Needless to say, …
Difficult Times: Part 2
15 December 2012, Banquil del Norte, Mendoza Provence, Argentina. The day started so well. We could hear silence; a rare thing, as the relentless wind which had been with us for nearly two weeks finally abated. We were the only guests of a little municiple camping area. Hard-baked earth formed our bed, someone had thoughtfully …
Difficult Times: Part 1
14 December 2012. I think this has been the worst day yet, as Dave said, “From start to finish…..” We got ourselves into this and are determined to run ourselves out; but wow, this relentless beating wind just doesn’t stop. We stayed on the only patch of grass in Barrancas (the canyons) Neuquen Province, Argentina, …
ipadio: Hear Dave and Kath’s daily phlog – 36th phonecast
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