Colorful Chiloe island

This is a typical farming and fishing island (salmon & muscle nurseries mostly) with again as I mentioned earlier, about 200 days of rain. The houses and buildings, including churches are mostly from wood and colorful. The color is to compensate the grey and rainy days that they have in the island... :-)

So tuesday morning, (April 30), at 10 AM, Jasmina and Tati, the guide and driver picked me up, Jasmina is also crazy about birds, so we’re really a match! Love them both! We went to Dalcahue to take a 10 mnt ferry to Quinchao island.

Then we visited different wooden churches in the island, all of them are in the list of Unesco heritage. The one without nails, like a piece of furniture that also survived during the 9.6 SR earth quake in 1960. The interior is all from wood, very special, even the floor is specially carved. We saw a green church, the oldest and the biggest one, different ones...

Since it is autumn here, so I found also mushroom… but the main highlights of the day was about birds, and yes we found royal ducks, humming birds, black neck swan, seagull, cormorant, heronds, sandpipers, coot, plover, oystercatcher and flamingos… a pink ones! When we’re back to Chiloe island, they took me to the traditional market in Castro, to see the different clams, the very pink salmon, 2 different seaweeds, different potatoes, big garlic, smoked pork, and smoke muscle for the soup…

The next morning, I had breakfast around 9, the big table was full of guests of the hotel. They started to talk also to me, it was a high level of spanish but I thought I managed. It was nice and friendly people, mostly Chilean from STGO. Then they wanted to have a picture with me… ;-)

I went with Jose to Ancud, to see the view of the river, the Spanish fortress and church… all in the rain and storm. Then we went to Caulin to see the flamingo but they were far away and together, we could only see the pink color… then we had to find the place for lunch and we ended up in a biological farm that the owner, she did also cooking for group of people. Potatoes, fish, salads and fruits dessert. It was delicious! Then the next challenge was to get a ferry from Charchau. There are ferries although storm so bad and amazingly, I didn’t feel sick at all, even without the pills.

So I’m back to Puerto Varas now but my nose was running, since...