Calbuco before and after the eruption

We are lucky that every now and then we can leave our home office behind for some field work, and last weekend we had lined up such a trip to the Los Lagos region, about 1000km south of Santiago. The work involved taking a bunch of photos from a set of specific locations, one happened to be inside Lake Llanquihue.

The Atacama Desert in Bloom - Desierto Florido 2015

This year has been unusual, weather-wise. A very strong El Niño seems to be breaking havoc in more than one way.

The snow has arrived

This year is supposed to be an "El Niño" year, which normally means increased amounts of rainfall across the South American Pacific coast. Except this El Niño event seems to be a bit unusual, we´ve had hardly any rain at all in Central Chile, thus far.

Chloe and Knut - A happy ending and a short update

Feels like a little update on what has happened since our last blog post is in order. To start with, we are happy to announce that our temporarily adopted dogs (Chloe and Knut) found two good new homes in Santiago.