We drove back to the
Pumalin Park ranger station. The station was as well designed as the
parks have been and all the workers boots were in the foyer and they
were walking around on carpet!
The walk we wanted
to do to the glacier was closed as the river crossings were too high.
However another couple of walks were still open.
We drove into the
park after moving the closed sign. A small aeroplane landed beside us
on the grass strip. Another immaculately kept parque. The walk
(Darwin’s Frog) was relatively flat and was a loop of about 3.5 K’s
it took us about 75 mins. Some nice views and lots of river crossings.
Certainly lots of water in this part of Chile at the moment.
Drove further south
and then East towards Futalaufu the last town before Argentina and
camped on the side of river Espolon, between rose bushes covered in
hips, just before the township of Futaleufu. This part of the river
was quiet but moving very fast.