Well it is day 3 of my Chile tour and I am in Bahia Inglesa in northern Chile. So far unfortunately, despite the fact that I am in the middle of a desert, the weather has been consistently cool and cloudy. Day 1 was fairly uneventful really (pretty much just travel) but yesterday was pretty cool. We travelled out to sea in a small boat to the islands of the Humboldt Penguin Nacional Reserve. The trip out was freezing but once we got there it was all worth it. I saw: Humboldt Penguins, 3 types of Cormorants, Gannets, 2 types of Vultures, loads of Sea Lions, 2 Sea Otters and many small birds. En route, we were driving through the desert when there was a road sign saying that there could be Vicuñas (a wild relative
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