Puerto Edén

I love this picture I took last summer. I like it a lot. It was the second day of vacation. Me and my family took this two day ship from Puerto Natales to Puerto Yungay, in the Patagonia.

After 24 hours of sailing, we arrived to the small town of Puerto Edén. That town was a complete mystery to me. Puerto Edén is located at a small island in south Chile, and we were there for only 1 hour. To get there, you have to take a 28 hour trip from Puerto Natales, or a 24 hour trip from Caleta Tortel.

I only heard of it at books or TV when the weather guy appears, but I didn’t except what I was about to discover:  a quiet town without cars, streets or even people. It was 8 AM in the morning and the only person I saw, besides the passengers of the ship, was an old lady who tried to sell us food.

The picture shows my family, and the huge isolation of this place. Wood stairways which walks the entire town, a lot of green undergrowth who appears from everywhere and the sea, who surrounds everything. The most curious thing, is that the only transport there are boats, and in the picture it appears a white and yellow boat who looks like a car parked in a garage... but no, it is a boat literally thrown away in the sand. Nobody cares if somebody comes to steal it, because nobody are going to do it and nobody could do it anyways.

I love this picture. It shows a different place, a place that not everyone can be in or walk in for a couple minutes. I feel lucky to be one of those who did it.