el Huáscar

Ok, time for ship photos!  As I said, this was a Peruvian war ship from the War of the Pacific in the late 1800s.  The Chilean navy took it in battle and then used it themselves, but now it is sitting pretty in the port at Talcahuano, beautifully restored and available for visitors. We had to show our Chilean ID cards to get into the navy base (the first time I've actually had to use that thing!) and waited for this floating platform thing to take us on board.  It was pretty damn cool. 

this dog waited with us

view back towards the street, with a cool old abandoned building in the back

sailor pulling us across!

he spoke English!

ooh la la

not too shabby!

Dan, Caroline and I

making a break for it 

this had to happen, obviously

So cool! Got my sea legs now.