La Tosca Hostel Puerto Madryn

... and a lovely 24C. Km 5820 - Cabo Dos Bahias (Camarones) Beside the observation of the whales, the area of Puerto Madryn is also home to some colonies of penguins - the biggest one (Punta Tombo) counting around 1/2 million of Magellan Penguins. As I already visited Punta Tombo in december 2007, and because we still have a lot of driving to do southbound, this year I went and visit ...

... a day of rest we decided to visit a nearby Welsh village (well 3hrs away via more scrub land!) that were founded by missionaries in the eighteen hundreds. What an experience to put it politely! Apart for Welsh sounding street names such as JC Evans street it was a hole. We did stop of at a Welsh tea room; it was like stepping back into the 1960's, very twee with an Aled Jones soundtrack on a continuous loop and tea towels with maps of Wales on the wall ...

... total trek to Punto Tombo was just shy of 200 km. We paid our park entrance fee and started to walk down to the penguin area. We didn't walk more than 25M when we saw our first penguin. Then we started to look further and they were literally like finding Easter eggs as Alexis put it. Penguins were everywhere, in holes they dug into the desert ground, under desert shrubs. We continued to walk the 2.5 km trail getting ...

... So, it's official, every town we have been to in Argentina has different deposit rules about buying beer. At least back in Iowa it's a consistent refundable .05 deposit. Brian has just started drinking more wine so we don't have to mess with it. While I was inside dealing with the deposits, Brian may have seen one of the coolest things ever. When he was standing outside he said a car drove by with a large black dog standing on the roof...barking!!! (think Micheal J Fox in ...

... amb la decepció de no haver pogut veure cap Ballena Austral. Al minibus hi ha una gent de Buenos Aires, per tant, recullo tants consells com sigui possible per la nostra estada durant el trajecte de tornada passant per la Província del Chubut. Descansem fins a les 21h & després ens preparem ja que el bus cap a Buenos Aires sortirà a les 22.10. Malauradament el bus fa una hora de retard, doncs, ja us podeu imaginar, esperar i esperar... El viatge serà d'unes 17-20h aprox.

... train to Corcovado in Rio. She and her husband, Terry, had had a stop in Lima on their way to the ship. While there her camera (Canon) and basic lens had been stolen right out of her camera bag. She had offered to let me use her 75-300 image stabilized lens since she did not have a camera on which to use it. I was reluctant, but I could see her point that the image stabilization would be an asset when shooting from the ship in the Antarctic. We met at Skywalker's and exchanged some image ...