NAVIGATION TOURS

OTHER NAVIGATION TOURS
For those who love sailing there are more options available. Besides those already mentioned, like De los Lobos Island, De los Pájaros Island, Martillo Island, Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, other attractions include De los Estados Island, the "Fueguian Channels" and the famous Cape Horn are expecting you.

Lapataia, for example, will be accessed heading west toward Puerto Arias. In Lapataia Bay you can join the tour coming by land from the National Park and thus combine coming or going by land. This trip takes 4 hours.

Penguin Rookery and Harberton
From "Don Eduardo Arturo Brisighelli" wharf, sailing southeast along Ushuaia Bay and the Beagle Channel you can visit the Bridges Archipelago, especially Alicia Island, where it is possible to study a great variety of native birds of the region, like the Blue-Eyed Cormorant, the Sooty Albatross, the Skuas, the Steamer Duck, the alakush, etc.

After that follows the Les Eclaireurs Archipelago where you can visit the sea lions colony that possesses two different species and Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse.

You continue up to "Estancia Remolino", where the remains of the wreck of "Monte Sarmiento" ship are found, half sunken on its sands. Always heading east, with Puerto Almanza on the left (Argentina) and Puerto Williams on the right (Chile), you arrive at Mackinlay Pass and you navigate up to Martillo Island to make a visit to the Magellan Penguins rookery.

The journey continues up to "Estancia Harberton" where you enjoy a short walk and guided visit to the ranch buildings and its work areas. From Harberton you start the journey back to Ushuaia, along the meandering Guaraní Pass, until you arrive at the small town of Puerto Almanza, whose few inhabitants are devoted to fish spider crabs and breed salmon. The excursion takes a full day.

Penguin Rookery
The maritime journey is the same as the one of the maritime excursion "Penguin Rookery and Estancia Harberton", except for the visit to the ranch, which is excluded from this excursion. The journey back to Ushuaia starts at the penguin rookery on Martillo Island, without entering Harberton Bay. Instead, the tourist will visit "Estancia Remolino".

Estancia Remolino and Port
This Fueguian ranch, sited on the north coast of the Beagle Channel, is the second oldest. In the year 1898, during the presidency of General Roca, Remolino was given to the family of John Lawrence in gratitude for the cultural activities undertaken by that family among the Indian residents since 1873.

Remolino used to be the home, and the source of work and cultural adaptation for the Yámanas, Shekl'nam, Haush and their descendants, from the end of 19th Century up to the 30's in the last century, when John Lawrence died.

You may enter Remolino through its port, on whose north coast ran aground the cargo and passenger ship "Comandante Sarmiento" in 1912, after being trapped and definitely incorporated to the landscape. The old hulk was recovered by the people in "Estancia Remolino" and one of the rooms now shows the history and the objects recovered from the wreck.

It is also possible to see replicas of the huts, harpoons and other instruments used by the Yámanas, found by archaeologists who study their past. There, everything looks just the way it was, in its same size.

The visitor can freely go through a lecturing tour which, over a short distance, will permit him observe the flora of various Fueguian environments. This interpretation tour, conveniently signaled, provides scientific information about the different aborigine Fauna and Flora species in the area.

Depending on the time of the year, the tourist can examine different types of natural flowers, from daisies to impressive types of sub-Antarctic orchids.

During the small voyage you get a glorious view of the Beagle Channel to the east and to the west. You can also see the Darwin Range, the highest mountains in the archipelago, as a natural background to a scenic view of Ushuaia, the city of the two bays.

Having endured many unwanted turns in its fortune, and in a serious state of dereliction, "Estancia Remolino" was finally taken over by the "Instituto Fueguino de Investigaciones Científicas" (Fueguian Institute of Scientific Research) and it came to be a research center. Its visit is a way of contributing to the development of research in the area.

SAIL NAVIGATION
This is a splendid occasion to sail and let yourself be taken by the magic of the labyrinth of fiords, bays and channels of the region. Away from the frantic city life, silence, nature and an expert captain will accompany you in this experience of spiritual regeneration.

Sail + Hiking
14-day sailing, also includes hiking along paths in the Beagle Channel glaciers.

Beagle Channel
Starting from Ushuaia, this tour takes you to the Bridges Archipelago, De los Pajaros Island, Les Eclaireurs Archipelago, De los Lobos Island and Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse. Meals with hot and/or cold drinks are part of it. It takes 6/7 hours.

Puerto Williams (Chile)
Departing from Ushuaia toward the east, passing by the Bridges Archipelago and Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, you will arrive in Puerto Williams (Chile). The visitor will spend the night mooring alongside the pier and will return the following day. Includes meals and drinks. Lasts 2 days and 1 night.

Harberton Bay
Departure is from Ushuaia toward the east, passing by the Bridges Archipelago, the Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, until you access Harberton Bay. Anchoring. Alternative visit to the ranch. Night aboard. Return the following day. Includes meals and beverages. Duration: 2 days and 1 night.

Cape Horn All
Expenses are included. Leaves from Ushuaia and heads toward Puerto Williams, Navarino Island, where you have to go through Customs in order to enter Chile. Turning south, skirts Lennox Island, crosses to Nassau bay to access Wollaston Archipelago, where Horn Island stands. It is there where one has to wait for the best climate conditions to go to Cape Horn. Finally, and depending on the weather conditions, it is possible to disembark on Horn Island, where the lighthouse and the Chilean Army control post will be visited.

Glaciers on Darwin Range
8-day sailing. All inclusive. Starting from Ushuaia, one directs toward Puerto Williams and Navarino Island, where you go through Customs before entering Chile. Turning west prior to reaching the northwest bough of the Beagle Channel. There, an enormous glacier spits coming from the tops of the immense continental glacier which covers the Darwin range, and lets their icebergs flow into the sea. The boat sails into these fiords, makes way through the ice that covers the surface of the water and gets up to a prudential distance from which one can survey the grandiose spectacle of the rumbling fall of colossal blocks of ice into the ocean.