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In Plaza Francia next to La Biela (next to the necropolis) is this huge rubber tree which is 20 meters high and 50 meters wide (!!!) To give you a sense of scale I've posed next to the massive tree, to the right of the main trunk. |
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This massive Palo borracho (drunken branch) has huge thorns covering its belly and has very, very odd limbs and shoots. It is huge- this is a quite large panorama. |
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This is the lower overlook at the end of Circuito Inferior, looking up at Salto Bossetti on the right and Isla San Martin on the left. |
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Caminito is a tourist-centered street in the La Boca barrio of Buenos Aires where the typical corrugated-metal structured are painted brightly and artists show their wares. |
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A $20 note from Argentina |
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Here is the wides street in the world, at this point 20 lanes wide (July 9 Avenue) and the center obelisk completed in 1936. |
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We were on a Quark Explorers Cruise on the MV Professor Multanovskiy, and we were exploring the Antarctic Peninsula. It was a beautiful day a after an impressive storm at sea. We took shelter from the gale in Hope Harbor, and we were invited ashore when the weather cleared.
It was a great landing. Base Esperanza is a year-round base that is the home to several families with children. The base has family-friendly facilities not found on most Antarctic bases. There is a chapel, a community center and a school. The Post Office sells stamps, and mail sent from here got back to Alaska only a little later than I did. The folks in the yellow jackets are all cruise passengers. Some of the passengers are in the foreground, and another bunch are coming up the hill from the landing. The guys in orange are folks who live at the base. On the hill at the far right is a quartet of moulting Adelie Penguins. Even though this is very fresh snow, there are quite a few penguin footprints around the birds. They are dressed in black and white. You will notice that they are looking a bit scruffy, but when their feathers return, they will be wearing traditional sleek formal attire. Then they'll waste no time getting back into the water. See if you can find them without using the snapshot. The 37 frames of this panorama were captured with a Nikon D80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. We cruised the Southern Ocean for 3 weeks, and I saw a lot of exotic places. You can see them all in other panoramas on this gigapan.org website. |
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Hope Bay was discovered by Otto Nordenskjold during The Swedish Polar Expedition in the 1st years of the 20th Century. Nordenskjold and five men from the expedition spent the winter of 1901-02 on Snow Hill Island conducting research. The Steam Freighter Antarctic, which dropped them off, was to retrieve them in the Spring of 1902. Unfortunately, next year's ice was treacherous and the Antarctic couldn't reach the island.
Three expedition members on the Antarctic, Dr. Gunnar Andersson, Lt. Samuel A. Duse and Seaman Toralf Grunden, were put ashore at Hope Bay with plans to reach Nordensjold at Snow Hill Island by sledge. They were supposed to tell him that the Antarctic was having difficulty reaching Snow Hill Island. The Antarctica then continued its efforts to approach to Snow Hill by sea. Unfortunately, the Antarctic was crushed by the ice, and the party from Hope Bay could not get to Snow Hill either. The 3 parties of men, the team of researchers at Snow Hill, the 3 at Hope Bay and 6 survivors from the Antarctic, spent the winter of 1902-03 in 3 separate huts in 3 separate locations. From December 1902 until September 1903, Andersson, Duse and Grunden lived in the shelter pictured here. They used the nearby Adelie penquin colony for food and fuel. When the weather warmed, they resumed their efforts to reach Dr. Nordenskjold and his team. On November 8, 1903, all three parties were reunited at Snow Hill Island, and they were all rescued by Captain Irizar and the Uruguay, which was a gunboat that Argentina had sent to search for the Antarctic when she did not return to Argentina. This tale of winter survival is one of the great stories of early Antarctic exploration. The stone hut remains as a tribute to the men and their extraordinary experience. Thank you Sally for showing me the door. |
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El Ateneo Grand Splendid, una joya entre las librerÃas del mundo |
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Taken from the highest building in Buenos Aires. |