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Here are some photos from Common Sense and Whiskey, chapter 7: Chilean Patagonia. You can buy professional prints of most of these photos in the Chile Gallery. You can buy Common Sense and Whiskey on Amazon.com, or by clicking here.
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With time to kill, waiting for the last rental car in Punta Arenas, I walked to the water, stepping lightly past mongrels at a Purina warehouse, and I put my hand in the chilly Strait of Magellan - right there amid a bunch of floating plastic bags and candy wrappers. The warehouses were better looking than the dirty shore.
A thousand sheep blocked the road outside Torres del Payne park. Two gauchos and a squad of dogs marched them forward. The dogs ran and darted, responding to the gauchos’ whistles, and moved the sheep off the road for us. They, and we, were bound for a place called Estancia Domingo (Domingo’s ranch). You can see it in the distance.
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The dogs do their thing. Mirja pointed out they weren’t sheepdogs, but mutts, or “cocktail dogs” as she put it, and observed that you wouldn’t need to play with these dogs at night because they’d be worn out.
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Guanaco on mountainside near Torres del Payne. They’re maybe four feet tall at the shoulders, llama-like, brown and white, from the camel family. They may weigh 200 pounds. They live in family groups, and we usually saw them with their kids. They’d do this funky juke with their long necks when they ran.
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