Lago Llanquihue and Osorno

I arrived at Puerto Montt airport in the evening and was greeted by my dad's old work collegue, David and his wife Raquel who took me to their cabaña on Lago Llanquihue, Punta Larga. I met Raquel's son and her daughter in law and their lovely blond baby called Leonor or Leo for short. I went for dinner with them and met the rest of the gang-friends and teachers and relatives.
On the first day we went to Osorno volcano which we could drive up most of and then took a chair lift to nearer the summit. We didn't climb any further as we didn't have a guide and apparently so many people have gone without a guide and never returned. No body found or anything. We ate lunch up the mountain with a perfect view of the snowy capped volcano. We then drove down to a nearby river which is usually raging but is now pretty tame because they didn't have much rain last year. We then went to a lake and sunbathed (but not for long-the breeze was pretty cold) and swam with a wonderful view of the volcano (you can basically see it from almost everywhere around this area on a clear day) and Leo got to use her bucked and spade although the beach was pebbles but that's just a technicality.