Archive for November 2015

Little Litter Pickers

We interrupt our series of articles about the Yaghan indians of Tierra del Fuego to bring you another tale about our day to day life down here. How do you picture the southernmost limit of mankind’s colonisation of this planet? Do you see snow and ice stacked up around little wooden houses? A back-drop of rugged mountains…? Wild winds whisking around the famous Cape and hurtling up through the channels…? The images that these words throw up are probably fairly…

Fitzroy has a Dream – Part Three of a Tale of Exploration and Indians

This is the third article in our series about Western encounters with the Yaghan natives of Tierra del Fuego. If you haven’t been following along, check out the first and second articles. It being only a week or two before the solstice, and the shortest day of the year in the south, the time available to us for sailing in the Beagle Canal was limited. Not that it’s impossible to travel at night, but one certainly can’t make harbour under…