Puerto Natales to Puerto Montt

NAVIMAG is a cargo business with shipping routes all along the coast of Chile. But its boats also have room for tourists travelling between the same points. The boat I was on carried a maximum of 170 people but at the time of year that I did it carries considerably less. Without counting a generous estimate would put it at a group of 15 not considering the crew. It took 4 days and 3 nights north and started out with the same perfect weather I had in Torres del Paine. The first day was spent outside watching the passing mountains and occasional seal and playing big chess up on the roof deck. The second day was fogged over and was a little less eventful until we got out to the open ocean and started getting tossed around. Quite a few peole lost there lunch and the wind up on deck was so strong that if you spread out your jacket you could really lean into it. After about an hour up there we were scolded by the biggest Chilean I have still yet seen and were told the gusts were up to 85 - 90 km per hour up there ands too dangerous to be up there. The third day too was clouded over but being back in the channel it was a much calmer one. Most of it was spent inside watching the movies they put up on the projector. We got into Puerto Montt the fourth day and a few of us were trying to get onto Santiago as quickly as possible but there was a strike blocking the roads and the only way to go about it was flying to Santiago to avoid the demonstration and shelling out about 100 bucks to do it. Between strikes and drug charges Chile turned out to be a very expensive couple of weeks.