January 2025
A place that I wanted to visit since a long time is the remote island Alejandro Selkirk, which is part of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago about 780 kilometers west of the Chilean coast. The group of three islands is a National Park and it is very interesting because of its rugged landscape and high endemism of its flora and fauna. Other than the main island Robinson Crusoe, Selkirk is not permanently inhabited. Only during the lobster season a few fishermen with their families live there.
Last January I had the rare chance to visit this island together with a group of photographers and ornithologists which wanted to study and photograph the 5 endemic bird species, that can only be found on Selkirk.
I produced a short documentary about the expedition which is available on YouTube:
