41.1033° S, 72.3597° W

Mendoza Argentina at 1am

If you go a bit south of Mendoza, Argentina (their web cam picture is to the left) - the wine center or one of their wine centers anyway, and a tad to the west, you come down in Puerto Octay, Chile.  We in Greenport are at 41.1033° N, 72.3597° W on the map and if you change the "N" to a "S" that is where you end up; high in the Andes near a lake.

We like web cams a lot. Wish we had some around here so folks in Puerto Octay could see us or the Mendoza inhabitants would note a "wine country" that rests as far north as they are south.

We are kinda fascinated by all this. The little peg on the map below is our "polar opposite"; the yin to our yang geographically and here we sit at sea level or thereabouts and our friends to the south are about 10,000 feet up. We both, however, rest at nearly the end of the road literally speaking as to each of us you can only get there virtually one way on one paved trail. We also like that far away places like Uruguay, Santiago and even Robinson Crusoe Island are in the vicinity. Remote places to our knowledge but happily complete with web cams.

Can't see much as it is the middle of the night both here and due south down there but we are going to look at first light as Puerto Octay has a web cam nearby. So does Robinson Crusoe Island. What fun in the morning!