He visto zorro, pero no castores

31 Aug After cooking off last night, we got up and going this morning. Our room doesn't have an individual thermostat. The thermostat is out in the hall and somebody had pushed it all the way to the right, so the heat ran all night. I did get up an open the windows, but there was an obnoxious noise from the street that caused me to close the window. Hopefully the same won't occur tonight. We rode the Tren de Fin del Mundo (End of the World Train) and toured the Parque Nacional de Tierra del Fuego. We got to the end of the Pan Am Hwy within the park and now have our "official" been there picture. It is a grey winter day, so the pictures probably won't do the area justice, albeit accurate. There hasn't been a lot of snow this winter and climate change is having it's impact on the ski industry in Argentina. There's been very little snow throughout the country and making snow really doesn't occur. The park is about a 20km drive from Ushuaia, so we hired a Remis for about 5 hours to get us to the train station, pick us up at the end of the line, and drive us around the park. Our driver only spoke Spanish, but he spoke slow enough for us to understand him despite his Argentine accent. The roads consist of hard pack muddy gravel. Roger is so glad he wasn't driving the RV, because it would have been challenging since our car slid around on the road. We saw one truck stuck in the mud as well. We saw two zorros (red foxes), but no castores (beavers). Foxes and beavers were introduced in Tierra del Fuego as part of the fur industry. There are no natural predators, so they soon became a nuisance especially when the fur industry died out. Now foxes are used to people and like people food, despite their digestive issues. They routinely get into garbage cans (think racoons) and are rather large in that they look like little wolves. Beavers continue to clog local waterways with their dams, and just pester the ecology. A lot of Ushuaia is closed on Sunday, probably 80%. The internet wifi was down at our hotel, so we went walking for a restaurant that had free wifi. Just noticed street signs have latitude and longitude on them: 54 48' 32" S and 68 18' 52" W.