One thing I have noticed about Chile and I'm sure most of South America is like this, there are loads of stray dogs around just wondering the streets and occasionally hassling people, cars and shops. I must have seen at least one hundred since my arrival into Santiago and then to Villarrica, I expect to see loads more the more I get around.
From Buenos Aries I will then go around the bay and into Montevideo, Uruguay. Haven't really planned out the next bit, just going to go into Brazil, stay there a bit going to Rio Dejanero and Sao Paolo maybe a few more places and then back across Brazil into La Paz, Bolivia. From there I want to go into Peru and go to the old Inca ruins in Macchu Picchu. I don't really know the exact route I'll take from there but most likely to go around the top of South America through Columbia and Venezuela and then to the Caribbean and into USA, to New Orleans then up the East coast into Canada, then across Canada and into Chicago and then to take in the sights at Yellowstone National park in Wyoming. From there I'm hoping to go back to Vancouver, Canada then down the West coast through Washington State and into California. I must check out Las Vegas when I'm right by it in California, then from Los Angeles get a flight to Hawaii if it isn't too expensive then to New Zealand and Australia. The rest if I still have time and money is not worth mentioning or thinking about as it is so far away, maybe even a year away.
I can see a stage in the distance on the edge of the lake, it sounds like there is loud music coming from it, maybe a sound-check as its not consistent and occasionally stops for a while. I'm off to investigate it any ways, it has taken my attention away from the natural beauty of the lakes and mountains. It was definitely a sound check, I think that I'll just sit here listen for a while and see what is going on. It is a concert that is due to start at 22.00 and is a big Chilean band called Lucybell + support acts. Maybe I will check it out later. I think this must be a town park or something, there are benches and trees all around with a swing and climbing frame to one side and of course this massive stage in the middle for the concert later on. The fences they have used to cordon off the area where you can't go are very different to those they use in England, for a start these are big and white and look very industrial compared to the smallish steel wiry ones in England. They don't all seem to be hooked into one another either, some are just tied up by wire. This is quite a nice site for a concert though, it is literally right on the waterfront, if it were any closer it would actually be on the jetty.
I just remembered that on the way here on the bus, we passed a sort of warehouse/lumber yard and they had a big sign on the road saying telegraph poles for sale, it was in Spanish of course but was very easy to translate. Out in the yard, there were piles and piles of these ready cut, treated and what looked like more or less fully prepared telegraph poles, there must have been hundreds if not thousands. This just came to my attention because as I was looking around I noticed that all of the telegraph poles here in Villarrica are made of concrete, this begs the question as to why are so many trees being felled for wood and made into telegraph poles when they are even being put to use, it just doesn't make any sense!