This is the first port of call in Chile. In the morning, we got a chance to walk around the town and it brought back our memories when we visited here a few years ago. In the main square, we revisited the Magellan Statue. One of the person on the statue has a very shiny toe which the legend says that one day one will return to Punta Arenas if you kissing and rubbing his toe. We did that a few years ago when we were here. And it still attracts a lot of tourists to touch it while they were taking photos. We did the same again.
In the afternoon, we attended Princess excursion 'Magdalena Island Penguin Reserve'. Princess offers 3 different excursions to the Magdalena Island to watch the Magellanic penguins. Since we heard about the story of bad experience of going with smaller vessel, we booked the one with a ferry boat. Sha’s family booked the one with catamaran which is a smaller vessel.
The wave was pretty high on that afternoon. It took us 2 and 1/2 hour ferry ride to get to the Magdalena Island. There was a ramp on this ferry boat and they just lowered the ramp and put a stair bridge on top of it. It made easier for us to walk on the stair bridge and landed on the Magdalena Island. There is a pathway from sea shore to the top of the island where there is a light tower. On our way to the light tower, we saw all sort of Magellanic penguins. The only difference between these penguins from the ones we saw in Punta Tombo Reserve is they lived on the hill top with no shade at all. They were very active of making all kinds of noises which is the way they are calling for their mates. We only had one hour on the island and guides were rushing us back to ferry in order to get us back to ship on time. As we found out later that the catamaran tried to land without success and Sha's family did about 6 hours riding without landing.
The wave was pretty high on that afternoon. It took us 2 and 1/2 hour ferry ride to get to the Magdalena Island. There was a ramp on this ferry boat and they just lowered the ramp and put a stair bridge on top of it. It made easier for us to walk on the stair bridge and landed on the Magdalena Island. There is a pathway from sea shore to the top of the island where there is a light tower. On our way to the light tower, we saw all sort of Magellanic penguins. The only difference between these penguins from the ones we saw in Punta Tombo Reserve is they lived on the hill top with no shade at all. They were very active of making all kinds of noises which is the way they are calling for their mates. We only had one hour on the island and guides were rushing us back to ferry in order to get us back to ship on time. As we found out later that the catamaran tried to land without success and Sha's family did about 6 hours riding without landing.
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