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Straight after ushuaia was our first bushcamp with the new group. We stopped a short way into chile in what looked like a small deserted village. There was a deserted building next to the camping area which looked like an old school, an old shop and a huge building which looked like a factory. It was my job to get the fire started so I went looking for firewood and almost immediately I found a dead dog in a chicken coop. On further inspection I also found a dead sheep in a dog kennel and another dead sheep lying next to a dead fox in the school building. Somethiing about this town wasn't right. Maybe there was somethiing in the water that had killed everything in the village. There was graffiti on the walls saying things like "juan 2007" or "carlos + maria 2006". I freaked out a bit when I saw one saying "DAN 2010". If things here weren't weird enough, there was also graffiti from the future...

We explored the shipwrecks on the beach, ate dinner and then went to find out what was going on in the factory. We weren't too surprised to find out it was an abbatoir. Things couldn't get much weirder. There were a few more dead sheep lying around outside and the smell was almost unbearable as we scrambled in via one of the sheep pens. The huge building was covered in sticky bits of wool, and at the end there was a long box-like contraption that we guessed was the killing machine. The smell was starting to make us feel sick and when I mentioned that you can get anthrax poisoning from dead sheep wool, we legged it out of there. All that was left to complete the horror movie we found ourselves in was some redneck psychos to ride into town and hang us up in their sheep-torture device. As it happens, one local did ride up to us, but he was a friendly guy and told us that the land was owned by a farmer with 60,000 sheep. He didn't tell us if these sheep were alive, or had been trained to eat human flesh, but he looked healthy and that was enough to convince us there wasn't a rare brain-eating virus that wiped out the village.

Another interesting bushcamp.