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# Blogging Patagonia

## WAYNE BERNHARDSON

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First saw Patagonia in 1979, when he traveled by thumb to Tierra del Fuego as a shoestring backpacker, and then trekked the Torres del Paine circuit for the first time in 1981 - seeing only three other hikers in ten days. Since 1990, he has returned to the region almost every year, in the course of writing guidebooks for Lonely Planet and, more recently, Moon Handbooks. He lives permanently in California, with his Argentine wife, but owns a car in Chile and an apartment in Buenos Aires.

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# [Fuerte Bulnes](https://blog.australis.com/blogging-patagonia/fuerte-bulnes)

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 By [WAYNE BERNHARDSON](https://blog.australis.com/blogging-patagonia/author/wayne-bernhardson) on Mar 29, 2016 3:38:33 PM

When the Spaniard Pedro de Sarmiento arrived on the [Strait of Magellan](http://www.australis.com/site/en-us/multimedia/galeria-imagenes/#gal3) in 1584, it was not for a Patagonia vacation. Instead, he disembarked 300 colonists at Punta Santa Ana to found the Ciudad del Rey don Felipe which, unfortunately, lasted only a few years before most of them died from a variety of causes including starvation, leading to the name Puerto de Hambre (Port Famine).

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