New Years Eve at the End of the World...

New Years Eve. I hiked the Costera, in the national park Tierra del Fuego. It was such a beautiful trail, working its way in and out, from forest to beach and back again, and it went on and on like that for miles on end. It was so nice, and all the while the sky was brightly overcast, and sprinkling off and on, giving everything a rich vivid color. It was a great day. The trail was very interesting, lush, moss covered, forest with open, rocky beaches bordered with golf course quality grass. It was rather spectacular really. I have never seen anything quite like it. The rocks and sand that made up the beaches were of a type that you would only find somewhere like this... the end of the world.

So amazing. I spent hours tip toeing around these beaches. They were filled with so many different things. I mean look at the photo above, that's how the beach was for hundreds of yards. And as you get closer to the forest it turns into a finer gravely sand, then sharply turns to grass and then woods. It was such a treat.

This moss covered everything. It was pretty neat stuff. It made for a pretty mystical hike.

Vivid growth everywhere, this stuff was growing all over the sides of trees.

As you would come in and out of the woods you would be met by this amazing grass, and a perfectly worn trail through it. I would stop and ask, where am I? It just looked so amazing, it was like I kept stumbling onto a golf course.

I cant get over the trails here that get worn into the grass and meadows, its almost as though they were cut by a machine. Four inches deep and fifteen inches wide...

Such a beautiful trail! It would weave in and out along the coast going from one spectacular beach to the next.

The postman at the end of the world. He was a character. You could send a hand made postcard from here for about 17 bucks. It was tempting, they were pretty cool, but really thats a bit much. Oh, and you could get your passport stamped saying that you made it to the End of the World. It was pretty cool.

Is it a good thing that the post office sports a pirate flag above the Argentine flag? I dont think that would fly in the states.

Post office at the end of the world. Pretty cool little place.