An Oceanic Museum and Memorabilia (5/18)

Today, we visited Isla Negra. It was a tour of the house of a former sea captain that was located on the beach. The artwork was beautiful, a house that was entirely a museum. For that reason however, we unfortunately could not take any pictures. However, the house did remind me of the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh (they converted his house into a museum, intentionally left in its original condition, just like Isla Negra was). Here, almost everything was related to the ocean. Artwork included miniature models of ships, tables constructed of ships that had wrecked on the beach, seashells, paintings, and even a bug collection. I was impressed of the good condition of the house, despite how old it appeared to be. It is unusual to think that someone could have lived in the house, but it was unique nonetheless. The view of the ocean was great as usual with larger than normal waves. We ate lunch at the restaurant in Isla Negra and had the option of fish again, but eating it yesterday, most of us had meat. The souvenirs in Isla Negra had an oceanic theme, which I thought was different than most of the shops I had seen.

After the tour, we visited the world’s largest swimming pool. This massive pool spanned about five condos in length and used seawater. My guess is that it combined five Olympic-sized pools, possibly more. For dinner, we ate at the hamburger restaurant again. I did not have it with guacamole this time, but tried their Chilean hot sauce, which was tasty. At night, we went to a bar to communicate with more Chileans.