Today is the conference excursion day (in the afternoon). The excursion took off by bus to one of German town called Frutillar Bajo. It is about 30-45 min drive from Puerto Varas. Once we arrived at the Frutillar Bajo, we're given a free time to explore the town on our own. However, for me, there was no free time to explore the town, instead I was driven away to see the future magnetometer site. Marina, Yami and I went to Ceus Llanquhue, where the University of Santiago has a research center, to see a site if it is magnetically quiet place or not. We met the director of the center, who is really a very helpful lady and very much willing to host our magnetometer if it is suitable for our scientific purpose. Although there are some limitations (nearby busy highway, wired fence, and proximity of the building where we place the mag electronics), it will be a safe place to put our mag here, of course with some scarification of data quality.
Part of Frutillar Bajo view!
University of Santiago center that we visited for potential magnetometer site!
University of Santiago professor and his wife just outside their summer house!
Quincho pichi Laguna, where the conference gogroup picture was taken!
Since we completed our site survey so early, the professor and his wife, who drove us to the site, invited us to their vacation house. That gave us, especially for me and Yami, to experience Chilean household. Yami was given a tour of the house by the professor's wife.
Finally, we were taken to the Quincho pichi Laguna where the conference attendees will have dinner. It was a fantastic dinner that we had, and finally we got back to our hotel safely around 11:00pm.
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