Walk to Alerce Andino National Park.

Hello, this week I must to write about a walk that I would like to do again, and the first place that springs to my mind is the walk to Alerce Andino National Park, this is a national park near to Puerto Montt (36 km from Puerto Montt), this national park is famous for its "millenary alerces" which are native trees from the south of Chile and Argentina, these trees are considered as some of the oldest and biggest living trees of the world, (the alerces are relative of the Sequoias from USA). some alerces are near to the 4000 years old, and in the middle of this national park there is a huge alerce surrounded for a little wooden fence.

(this is one of the two park's entrances) 

(the huge millenary Alerce)

  I visited this park at January or February at 2007 and I was with three friends who came from Santiago and they didn't know Puerto Montt. we traveled for two days and we walked throw the park, we wash in a waterfall (it was almost a cavern, full of water steam), I remember that there were many bloodsucker insects which were very irritating. I also remember that we used huge leaves of ferns to avoid these insects, but these insects didn't stop till we killed them with the hands.

Although, there were huge "Nalcas" which are southern Chile native plants, moreover these plants are edible (the stem), but it doesn't have a good taste.

(I don´t know who is this man, I just used this photo to show the size of the leaves)

    I the night it is possible to hear many kinds of nocturnal animals, like woodpeckers, owls, and other animals that I cannot to know what they were.

That was a very cool travel, goodbye to everyone.

Free post number 2: Glaciology in the actuality.

    This week I have the freedom to write about I want and I thougt to write about a very interesting theme for me now.  I´m going to write about the study and the utility of the Glaciology in the contemporary world, especially in this moment when we must to face the climatic change and its consequences, in special all the linked to the water troubles as the dries and floods.

 

    The study matter of the Glaciology are the glaciers of the world and all the linked to their origin, shape, thermal range, location, size, and the derivative shapes from their as the "U" shaped valleys, the great lakes, the hanging valleys and their wonderful waterfalls, among many other important things.

    In Chile we have the Andes range and it provides to us of the enough water to live (at least in central and southern Chile) and the it gets the water from the clouds throw thermodynamic processes and sometimes the water falls as liquid, but other times it falls as snow, and it became "firn" (hard snow in the common language), later, near to three years it could to became glacial ice, and I say "could" because it is not sure that the snow became firn and it became glacial ice, it depends of several factor, mainly the climatic conditions as the temperature and the occurrence of new snowfalls.

  I already wrote in a short way the glacier birth processes, but the most interesting now it is to write about the utility of glaciers for us. They are the big safe water reserves that we have specially in summer times when it is sunny and we have not rain in central Chile, the glaciers are like the water reserves that everyone of us would must to have in our homes (in case of water cut-off) and the summer is like that cut-off.  when they get warmer in summer, they release liquid water to the rivers.

   The problem is that the most of glaciers in the world are diminishing, and we could lose these vital reserves, and I don´t know how this world will can to carry on living, but that is another story.

Goodbye to everyone.

My future in ten years more.

 

    Hi bloggers, in this week I must to speak about my future in ten years more, and I will begin to say where I will be living then, and I thing that perhaps I will be living in Punta Arenas or Valdivia, Concepción, Puerto Montt, I am not sure where I will live then, I only know that it is hard that I live many years in the same city.

    I would like to be working in something linked to the Physical Geography and to can travel often for the job.

 

 

    I hope to have a good house to live and I probably I got married my girlfriend then (she could not wait more time for that) and I don´t know if I will have sons then, perhaps, perhaps not, I don´t know.

 

   About the achievements, I think that the higher achievement that I could to get in that time is to graduate from the university (I would be very happy for that) and to get a job that I like.

 

 

    

   If we speak about the future of the world, I think that in ten years more the cars will can fly and they will use nuclear energy, ha ha ha, I have seen old magazines from the 60´s that spoke about the future in the 2000 year and it showed a world using nuclear energy everywhere, even in the houses, but I don´t know that the world can to change so much in only ten years, but perhaps our world will be a little hotter for the climate change and maybe we will have to get used to hotter and dryer summers, storms and  many other phenomena.

 

 

   I think about the pollution and I hope that it can to have a solution.
 

 







February 27, the earthquake.

 

 

  Hello, this week I must to write about the earthquake at february 27, a long and sad story.

 

I had arrived to live to Concepción at february 22, 2010, I had begun to study Industrial Design in the University of Biobio and we started the classes at february 23, I was to study a few days and at february 26 my girlfriend arrived from Puerto Montt to live with me in Concepción, we went for a walk by the downtown of the city and we went to a big park and to a hill near to the downtown of the city, it was a nice day and later we went to our home to rest.

 

 

 

   the earthquake begun late in the night and we were sleeping then, and the whole house begun to move and I thought that it was a nightmare, but I realized soon that it was a real earthquake, the house moved as a ship in a big storm, the glasses broke and the electricity and water were shut off, and I heard gas explosions everywhere (Concepción has underground gas pipes) several gas pipes broke in the city but the workers of the gas plant shut off the gas supply just in time to avoid a mayor tragedy. we had not a device to listen the radio then, but we Heard the news by a portable  neighbors' radio and then we listen a Concepción´s radio which said that it was a tsunami in Dichato and that already had dead people because of the earthquake and tsunami, and the radio said that we had to be calm.

 

   in the saturday morning we walked searching something to by to eat, but every grocery store were closed and it the few grocery stores that were open sold the food in the triple of the real Price or even more, In the afternoon the people begun to steal everything everywhere, even I saw people stealing fuel in a oil station, they extracted the fuel from the tanks using tins with cords, something similar to the eskimo people when they fish in a hole in the ice, for this reason arrived the soldiers in the night to order the city.

 

 

  we stayed for three day in concepción later the earthquake and then we traveled to Santiago escaping from the chaos.

 

 It was a great story, I hope that it had interested you.

goodbye everyone.



EXOTIC PETS IN THE WORLD

 

  Hello to everyone, in this week I have to write about a pet that I have or I would like to have, I alright wrote about this in a past post (june 24, 2013) for this reason I decided simply to write about the exotic pets that the people have around the world especially the strangest animals that the people could to have in their house.

 

 

 

 

  For example this boy and his snake, apparently to have snakes how pets is common in asian countries (because I have seen several photos in which appear children with snakes), wow it is amazing to see a little boy hugging that animal.

 

    Here we can to see an anteater with a sweater, I don´t know where it lives nor how is its owner but it´s a beautiful animal to have in the house (espeacially if you have an ant plague in your house), in a different way you would have to go to search ants to feed him. (hard job for a human).

 

 

    ha ha ha, this must to be the most intelligent pet of the world, it is a Capybara, the biggest rodent of the world, this animal lives in the tropical countries of America and it is the anaconda´s favorite food, but this capibara doesn´t have anything to fear because it is in a house and it knows its rights, how you can see it studing in the photo.

 

 



 

 

   This is a reindeer and its owner in a train station, I don´t know haw that animal can to travel in a train but it must to be something strange but accepted in another countries.

 

 

 

This is an Axolotl, an amphibian animal sold in many pet shop in the world.

 

I hope that you had enjoyed this post, goodbye everyone.

 



 

      

 

 

 

 



 

   

My girlfriend´s graduation dinner.

     Hello, in this post I must to speak about a special meal that I remember, and I thought that is interesting to remember an important dinner that I had.

 

    This dinner was the celebration of the university graduation of my girlfriend in 2009, she graduated of Psychology in Puerto Montt that year with a very well mark, and the people who went to the dinner were his family and me, this dinner was in an amazing restaurant near to Puerto Montt, its name is Kiel, I don´t know what is Kiel, perhaps it is a german word, but it doesn´t matter.

   

 

    The restaurant is in front of the sea and it had very beautiful gardens with ponds with ducks swimming there, and this restaurant had a marine setting, full of things from the ships and from the sea, wow, it was a luxury restaurant, and I don´t remember very well the meal, perhaps it was beef with some accompaniment, desserts and wine, but I remember very well the "ceviche".

 

 

     I remember in special this dinner because it was a special moment for my girlfriend, when someone graduates from the university merits to have a celebration for his/her achievements, it is necessary to celebrate the great moments.

 

goodbye to everyone.

 

    

 

    

 

  Travel to Dichato and "Los morros"

 

   I remember very well a travel I did with a friend to Dichato (David Reyes) in a weekend at february 2005. Dichato is a coastal town in the north of Concepción. It was a poor travel but funny, we led our things in the hut of one person that I knew, but we had to sleep in a tent near to 5 AM. the night in Dichato was funny because it is a very crowded beach.

 

 

 

   In the following morning we was to "Los morros", those are a hills in the end of the bay, but we were walking and we took around 2 or 3 hours (in a turtle step), and when I saw the open sea it was genial, when you up to these hills you can see the inside of the bay and in the other side you can see the huge Pacific ocean, with its waves trains, fishing boats, seagulls and you can feel a pleasant wind, we climbed to the Summit´s hill and there was several seagulls nests.

 

 

and these seagulls threatened peck us when they flew down and quickly, moreover they shouted loudly to protect their nests, although we didn´t want to destroy their nests.

 

 

 

 

   Later of this we were to the beach which was full of huge cochayuyos.  It was a genial travel to the beach.

 

Goodbye to everyone, till the next week.