Island Girl Crosses Tropic of Capricorn

Island Girl crossed the Tropic of Capricorn yesterday, flying 290 km (180 miles) for the day. She is now officially in the tropics although it is a purely tropical desert in this case.

She flew past Antofagasta early in the day (home of Sparrow King), continued following a coastal route past Tocopilla and put in for the night on the coast.

Google Earth shows that she roosted on a dry hillside quite near the Pan-Am Highway and overlooking the ocean. This site is only 19 km (12 miles) from one of Elizabethas rosting sites from last year.

Island Girl was about 153 km (95 miles) south of the city of Iquique last night and will likely be approaching Arica and the Peruvian border today.