After our 'hurry up and wait' morning yesterday (so we could be ahead of other buses at the borders), we didn't depart today until 10:00! Took public transportation into Puerto Montt where we spent a few hours shopping,both for ourselves and fulfilling a mission of locating two ingredients per group of four. Our list contained kelp and smoked seaweed, seemed pretty exotic to us! More empanadas for lunch; we shared two: bay shrimp and cheese & king crab and cheese in a thin, flaky crust--mmmmm! The crab was best!
Now the serious shopping began in about a three-block strip of tiny shops. Bigger than booths, some even extended quite far back. I finished off my collection of lapis lazuli and we both purchased gifts for family (no, I won't tell you what exactly we bought!) We had a very good time!!! What's not to like?
Back on board the bus we drove to Petrohue Falls whose chutes of rushing turquoise water made an incredible sight and a magnificent background for more shots of Orsorno Volcano! Look up that mountain online, its perfect inverted cone shape dominates the landscape for miles and miles and, the weather again today was perfect with a starkly clear, blue sky--we are so fortunate!!!!
Finally to Vincente Perez National Park. Lovely woods an placid lakes. We were ferried just a few minutes across Emerald (or All Saints) Lake for dinner with a fisherman and his family: fresh trout! Perfectly cooked, potatoes in cheese sauce, salad, some kind of fried something (we heard it was a kelp dish and also hush puppies, so who knows really?), fresh salsa, fresh biscuits, red wine, Liquor de Oro, a gentle digestive, but alas the liquer made me sneeze! Have you heard of such a thing? Someone said the culprit was probably the saffron!
Driving home, Osorno had taken on a breath-taking pink hue due to the sunset--a lovely end to yet another spectacular day.
Now I'm weary and will snuggle down; 6:00 a.m. wake-up tomorrow will come early!
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