In the province of Ultima Esperanza. Puerto Natales, initially or during colonization, should be a small port and warehouse district. Before 
had to liquidate the owners of the land, indigenous people and then burning forests for grazing. Or was it vice versa? I do not remember. Wool, mutton, lamb ... Patagonian salmon and tourists around the world, many Israelis. Today is a purely tourist destination, like many I find in the Chilean Patagonia and Argentina. Hotels, hostels, restaurants and shops for supplies of backpackers, a little more, because we all come to see the same thing: the Torres del Paine . 
Torres del Paine. Young monoliths of three thousand meters The images had been exercised magnet. Are granite monoliths of nearly 3,000 m. I saw nothing, or very little, during my stay. I sought to portray the image that illustrates this post is not mine, but I found only with accompanying. A slight frustration came over me. The staff is equipped for camping, backpacks to the brim, tent and sleeping bag. I do not come prepared or material, or psychological, which is much more important, the other as shopping, preparing mental, no. The staff makes trips from three to 10 days to turn over the "W" formed by these hills. I do not. Only I made a trip "full day" with an awful weather of rain and wind, just saw, I sensed the graphic force of some hills young, just 12 million years.
But do not get discouraged at the time, everything is new around, you still enjoy it, out of adversity advantage: light, glaciers, snow-capped, green lakes, rivers, green - produced by magnesium in the rocks, I was told, and some plains eternal, is the Patagonia. We must take advantage of animals do not flee, away quietly, as they are not hunting, look huanacos, rheas, the beautiful Huemul, in recovery, to the gray fox approaches you. 
Salmon is a boom! Salmon has become a major source of income. The Chileans learn quickly, have copied the Norwegian systems, Canadian and have adapted to their geography and climate. They have a sea full of salmon farms, with camera system at the bottom of the cage and computerized power. Chileans today are allowed to teach even the Scandinavian countries, told me a biologist
Marine who works for Pescanova in Puerta Arenas. Often moved to other regions of the world salmon to learn, copy, teach. The truck that illustrates this block is a constant. In the snapshot being deposited on the boat trailer for transportation to the cages located between channels that abound. They look at hundreds, from Valdivia to Punta Arenas. There in the van carrying tanks of salmon fry. They were moved from the nursery in freshwater, where they are born and their first finned-installed track and leads them to fatten up the salt water. A process that lasts for months in the wild, man resolves in hours with a truck. Crazy, no?
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