Shards

~ mhbeard

October 2024

Going back over my photos, I knew that there were some topics I could say (or show) more about.

Street art and murals are so much fun. Valparaiso was a total trip, but our tour guide showed us a few goodies in Santiago too, including this favorite:

The total population of Rapa Nui is around 7,000, I think, and there is only one town. Can you guess that it was windy when we took this walk?

Here’s another of the moai that were intentionally toppled. Maybe there was strife among the clans some time between 1500 and 1700, or maybe something else happened; nobody knows for sure. But hundreds of the giants were broken and left on the ground.

Back on the continent, we stopped at a sheep ranch in Patagonia. It’s spring in the southern hemisphere, and time to shear the approximately 1000 sheep on this ranch. They are big animals, with dense fleece, but these guys cut the whole fleece off as a single mass of wool.

Here’s the whole gang at work.

In the Torres del Paine national park, Grey Lake is fed by a glacier. On by far the windiest walk of our stay, we trudged along the rocky gravel at the end of the lake to see this flat-topped chunk of the glacier that had broken off. We don’t see too many iceberg on our travels, so this was a hit.