Here it is January 4th and my planned stay here at El Tabo´s Las Siete Cabañas is already half over. Time flies when you don´t have very much of it, and this time, a good portion of that time has been consum
ed while construction w
orkers have been pounding and hammering away.
ed while construction w
orkers have been pounding and hammering away. 
The top pictures show cabaña no.4 and no.5 (the one I´m staying in) with new rough wood exterior siding as well as one photo showing the view overlooking the residential zone of El Tabo as seen from the unfinished swimming pool.
The next series of pictures show the rather striking pavilion that was recently finished. It was under the roof of the pavilion where we celebrated New Year´s with a midnight feast.
Here is a photo of the unfinished swimming pool and next to it is a picture of four new mini-cabañas, which will likely be used by weekend tourists. They are tiny (one room, plus bath) and do not posess kitchens like the larger, free-standing cabañas have.
Actually my own cabaña was still in need of work when I moved in on New Year´s Eve. Therer were several windows that were missing panes of glass, and Diego covered these with a temporary covering of plastic sheeting. This morning I finally got my final glass panes installed - in the bathroom.
Now I don´t know if I mentioned this in my last post, but once again, I have been plagued by fleas, which no doubt came from that pesky little dog El Negro and his partner in crime, Lorenzo. Diego says that both dogs are again infested with the little buggers, and no doubt the dogs had been able to freely enter the cabañas at will while the workers were busy re-doing the kitchen and bathroom in cabaña no. 5 before my arrival. I recall that El Negro really liked to climb up to sit on the living room easy chairs last year before I banished him. Anyway, the bites are already fairly numerous, and they itch like hell.
So yesterday I went into town and bought a cannister of Raid, and returned to spray down the cabaña. And during my absence, Diego had a couple of his workers spray insecticide around the approaches to the cabaña. Even so, I think I had a few new bites when I woke up, so I stripped the bed and sprayed that as well. Hopefully that will take care of the problem, but you never know. As I recall from last year, when I had this same problem, these bites take some time to stop itching, so I suppose that I´ll still be feeling some of that when I fly home on the evening of January 13th. Que mala suerte!
2 comments:
very interested in your experience staying here
i am looking to be on the coast something after the first of the year.
any contact email or website for the cabanas you stayed in.
thx
Smokey - as you have observed in past travels in Chile, the country is now overrun with dogs, often running in packs, some of which have taken to killing children and similar ugliness towards adults and of course livestock and wildlife. The effect is that some places here in Chile are becoming as filthy as French towns, where dogs are brought into restaurants even where it is clearly illegal. But Chilean culture ("Chileans love their dogs more than their children" goes the saying) and an increasingly absurd legal system here seem to be in favor of further overpopulation of filthy, diseased, and dangerous dogs. Once in a while a Chilean newspaper editorial will lightly touch upon the problem, and occasionally a municipality will take steps to deal with it. Some overly-vexed citizens have taken to poisoning the street dogs in the cities. But the masses in Chile, including what pass for otherwise intelligent people, comprise a culture that is irresponsibly pro-dog, whether the animals are loose or loosely owned. The only ones (apparently) taking meaningful steps are some of the ranch owners, many of whom shoot loose dogs on sight, as in the civilized countries.
Un saludo desde la patagonia sur,//rr
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