A 2.4 hour flight, finally, down to and around Cape Horn.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 32.0 mm; 1/30 sec, f/4.0, ISO 100

Just after leaving Punta Arenas for Cape Horn. Red is dead. And we're flying through this? Yeah, yeah, we just took off, and haven't climbed to our cruising altitude.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 45.0 mm; 1/800 sec, f/5.7, ISO 100

Abandoned air field south-east of Punta Arenas.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 60.0 mm; 1/13 sec, f/5.7, ISO 100

Flight of three down to Cape Horn.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 32.0 mm; 1/80 sec, f/5.7, ISO 800

Still got some climbing to do....

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 47.0 mm; 1/160 sec, f/5.7, ISO 800

Up and over....

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 32.0 mm; 1/50 sec, f/5.7, ISO 800

Heading down to Cape Horn. John is the diamond to the left of cape horn. Notice the bits of red on the terrain? There's still some high stuff out here.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 84.0 mm; 1/800 sec, f/5.0, ISO 200

Cape horn.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 50.0 mm; 1/800 sec, f/5.0, ISO 200

Cape horn.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 105.0 mm; 1/800 sec, f/5.0, ISO 200

Cape horn.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 80.0 mm; 1/800 sec, f/5.0, ISO 200

Cape horn.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 24.0 mm; 1/800 sec, f/5.0, ISO 200

Cape Horn! That's it! We've flown to the end of South America.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 24.0 mm; 1/800 sec, f/5.0, ISO 200

Cape horn.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 24.0 mm; 1/800 sec, f/5.0, ISO 200

Cape horn.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 24.0 mm; 1/800 sec, f/5.0, ISO 200

Cape horn.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 65.0 mm; 1/30 sec, f/5.0, ISO 400

That was fun, lets go back. The diamond is Behn & Rita now circling the cape.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 32.0 mm; 1/30 sec, f/5.0, ISO 400

More or less the lat/long of Cape Horn. We were five minutes out when we remembered to do this.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 24.0 mm; 1/80 sec, f/5.0, ISO 400

Shortly after circling around Cape Horn. The DARIN intersection (the island in the middle of the map; I think these are the Darwin Islands) is also known as Death Pass.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 32.0 mm; 1/60 sec, f/5.0, ISO 400

Flying up the Straits of Magellan, back to Punta Arenas.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 65.0 mm; 1/250 sec, f/8.0, ISO 100

Final, runway 25, Punta Arenas.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 65.0 mm; 1/250 sec, f/8.0, ISO 100

The Fourth Air Brigade, Carlos Ibáñez Military Air Base in Punta Arenas. They were busy flying F-16's when we were there.

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS at 40.0 mm; 1/250 sec, f/8.0, ISO 100

Landing (again) runway 25, Punta Arenas.