Tag Archives: Subantarctic

The Antarctic feel

Posted on April 21, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

Punta Arenas is the closest a big city gets to Antartica. The implications of that fact are nowhere felt better as on the top of the Cerro Mirador, the mountain overlooking the city. I have to admit the weather conditions in … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Antarctica, Chile, Extreme, Nature photography, Photography, Snow, South America, Subantarctic, Travel, Travelling, White, Wildlife, Winter | 3 Comments

Lyrical about a forest

Posted on April 20, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

Oh, the Patagonian forests! You might remember me getting lyrical about them in a previous post, but I did not have enough time there to express all my love for them. I especially wanted another chance to speak about all wonderful things living … Continue reading →

Posted in Chile | Tagged Animals, Birds, Chile, Ecology, Forests, Mushrooms, Nature, Nature photography, Nothofagus, Photography, Plants, Science, South America, Subantarctic | 8 Comments

Small adventures from far, far away

Posted on March 24, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Every field ecologists hopes for field days with only few dramatic adventures. We were lucky, because there is almost no destitution to share, or it should be the thousands and thousands of sticky plants that hooked on to our clothes … Continue reading →

Posted in Chile | Tagged Abroad, Adventure, Aliens, Experiment, Field ecology, Fieldwork, Punta Arenas, Subantarctic | 3 Comments

Fresh from the field!

Posted on March 23, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

The first day of fieldwork was long and intense, but nothing less than a success. It was a relief to find back our plots where we had left them behind 4 months ago. It was an even bigger relief to … Continue reading →

Posted in Chile | Tagged Abroad, Adventure, Aliens, Chile, Fieldwork, Mountains, Punta Arenas, Research, Subantarctic | 6 Comments

Walking with the death

Posted on November 27, 2013 by lembrechtsjonas

One of the main places worth seeing in Punta Arenas serves the death, not the living. It is intriguingly beautiful for a city with so few attractive places. So impressive that it even got listed by the CNN as 1 … Continue reading →

Posted in Chile | Tagged Abroad, Adventure, Cemetery, Patagonia, Punta Arenas, Subantarctic | Leave a comment

Pictures from Chile

Posted on November 23, 2013 by lembrechtsjonas

I’m currently safely back in Belgium and found some time to look at my favorite views from my visit to Chile. I’ll add some of them to this post and upload more interesting pictures to the photo gallery ‘Punta Arenas’ … Continue reading →