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Presenting to students in Puerto Natales

by kath lowrieBig Toe BlogPosted on 20/08/201226/08/20120 comments

We gave our first presentations in Puerto Natales to a class of 17 year olds, a group of 12-13 year olds, their teachers and the government envirnment officer. Incredibly we uttered it in spanish. A baptism in fire, with a mix of

A flying carpenter!

by kath lowrieBig Toe Blog, Waddle on the WildsidePosted on 11/07/201211/07/20120 comments

Something odd is raining from the sky. Swords of sunlight are slicing through the canopy of ancient trees in Parque Pumalin, southern Chile. It cannot be rain. We squint into the mossy tops of the trees.

The morning’s milk

by kath lowrieBig Toe NoticeboardPosted on 11/07/201211/07/20120 comments

Every other day, a bottle of warm, fresh milk arrives on the river bank. David and I live on our old wooden boat, Lista Light, you see and for the past two and half months we have

BigToe Classroom: In the Dock

by adminBig Toe Blog, The Run UpPosted on 06/07/201206/07/20120 comments

The 5000mileproject’s BigToe LIVE Classroom took to the road on Monday, three weeks ahead of the actual start line of the running challenge, to be tried in front of Montevideo St George’s School . . . and if we were in the dock, and the judge was the effervescing psuedo-Uruguayan teacher Patty, then the thirty …

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Top 5 ways to use old plastic bottles!!!

by adminBig Toe Blog, The Run UpPosted on 13/05/201213/06/20120 comments

All sort of things cross our minds as we run, but of late we cant help but notice the number of discarded plastic bottles that make up the rubbish that litters the road. They are getting on my nerves!!!! How can it be possible for the production of all that material to be justified in …

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