Today was a terrible day. Terrible. The word can´t be repeated enough. Lets start at the beginning. Got up at 5am (!) to catch the 6am bus next to the hostel. Saw a lovely sunrise, but the bus was half an hour late. 1.5 hours and one incredibly whiney child and smelly man later, our bus arrived at Paquera, dropping us to catch the Ferry, which was fine fine fine and we arrived at Punta Arenas on mainland at 10.15. Now, riddle me this; why would the harbour arrange for a boat to come from south of the peninsula to mainland so that it arrives at 10.15, when another boat leaving mainland to go north of the peninsular at 10.00. Why not just wait 15 mins and see if anyone from the South wanted to go
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