Sunday, March 13, 2011

Puerto Varas, Chile

Here in south Chile for about 1 week. This is a beautiful town, right on the edge of the largest lake in Chile and opposite Volcan Osorno - which you can see in some of the pictures. We flew here so I could have a few meetings and give presentations on wind energy science to 4 local schools - as KidWind is developing a partnership with a local renewable energy company called Wireless Energy. If curious, check out their educational side-project here: http://www.renovalab.cl/
It is cool to be in Chile, and the landscape is stunning - but this town is very expensive! Glad we are not paying for a hotel here...
Our ¨host¨ Fransisco (works for Wireless Energy) took us on a couple adventures, including going to Petrohue waterfall and Lago Todo Los Santos. The rock you see next to the waterfall was once a lava flow from Volcan Osorno!
We fly back to La Paz tomorrow, and have a few more days there before pushing on into Peru! We fly from Lima in two weeks!

 Volcan Osorno

Petrohue falls - Volcano barely visible

View from our hotel this morning

Petrohue Waterfall - Water is normally green but it had rained

Netta & a friendly pup - Lago Todo Los Santos

Pirate Ship - we took a ride our first night here

Sunset from the Pirate Ship

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  1. UnknownMarch 22, 2011 at 6:35 PM

    I heard something on DemocracyNow today about the US trying to help Chile build a nuclear plant, Chile being the country with the strongest earthquake of the 20th century on record (9.5). Work you magic Joe. Get those kids hooked on wind energy. And come back to MN soon so I can see you.
    -Connor

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  2. lauraApril 6, 2011 at 2:15 PM

    I like the volcano shots. You didn't get to see Chaiten did you? I have a lot of co-workers doing research there.

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