54 South Cabo Froward
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Fifty
Four South March 3rd Steamy morning coffee
to soften our biscuits, we could have been in Llandberis Pass, Snowdonia was all
around us, Chasing both tide and
sunrise around Cape San Isidro, the light above the mountains by Nassau Island
for a glorious picture fifty four south as we closed Crown Point for a look
proper at Cape Froward. 54.00.00 S
071.12.00 W Cabo Froward,
Southern most point of mainland South America. Marked with a large cross, the
third of its kind. The first erected for the birth of the new city of Punta
Arenas, twice the cross had been worn away and blown down but with the visit of
Pope John Paul III the Patagonian Chileans wanted a new cross to be erected.
1968 saw a modern reinforced steel mesh cross erected for the people to
celebrate life and what a view it made for us in the morning
sunshine. |