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Three
days sail from the Chilean mainland, we made a stop at Robinson Crusoe Island.
Capitalizing on the worldwide popularity of the classic eighteenth century novel
of a marooned sailor by Daniel Defoe, the Chileans have renamed the main island
in this group Robinson Crusoe. This is indeed the island where the real
Alexander Selkirk, on whose story Defoe's novel is based, spent four years. We
were able to look at the cave where he is refuted to have lived, as well as take
a walk with a ranger up to one of the island's peaks, passing through some world
heritage protected rainforest.
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