Estancia Del Sol Puerto Piramides

... zum kleinen Hafendorf Puerto Piramides. Schnell eine Schwimmweste überziehen und in ein am Strand wartendes Schlauchboot klettern. Ein mächtiger Traktor schiebt uns in die Golfgewässer ... wir schwimmen in den Golf und stoppen die Motoren ... und warten ab, was passiert. Schon bald nähert sich ein Walmutter mit ihrem Kalb. Deutlich ist die charakteristische weisse Zeichnung zu erkennen, die bei jedem Wal individuell ist. Dank ihr lassen ...

... of the clever title of this entry, we called them sea lions). These guys are a site for sore eyes. Large, flubbery, and oddly placed along the beach. They would roar and flop around as if they were doing the enlarged version of the ¨worm¨. It was interesting to see how the males protected their colony of females and calves. If they felt the least bit of insecurity, they would flop over the escaping female and lay on top of them until they felt confident ...

... At this point we could almost park on the beach and within the first five minutes we had spotted 9 whales. We decided to walk to the waters edge and had a mother and baby start swimming slowly around about 100 metres away from us. They carried on doing this for the 30 minutes that we stayed. Whilst this was happening in the distance we could see a whale doing its exercises, by this I mean leaping out of the water up to 2/3's of its length. When you consider that the ...

... Op de parkeerplaats kwamen we weer onze vriend de gordeldier tegen, rare beesten zijn dat hoor. Zonder enige genre liep onze vriend heen en weer en iedere keer als hij iemand nieuw zag, liep ie er op af alsof het zijn beste vriend was. Paparazzi daarentegen had hij een pest hekel aan. Toen ik mijn camera op gelijke hoogte met zijn hoofd hield was de reactie ATTACK! Rennen achter dat ding aan en kopstoten geven. Mis ...

... behutsam. Wir muessen seltsam fu** sie aussehen, mit uns**en bunten Schwimmwesten, die wir v**passt bekommen haben und den Kam**as vor fast jedem Gesicht. Die Crew **kla**t ein paar Details zu den Walen. Sie haben weisse Ablag**ungen auf d** Haut, die fu** jeden Wal einzigartig sind in d** Form. Dadurch koennen sie genau identifizi**t w**den. Wir sehen ab** auch eines ihr** Probleme, das vor einigen Jahren begonnen hat. Die Moewen landen auf dem Ruecken d** auftauchenden Wale und picken ...

... and frequently, it`s your only option, empanadas, pizzas, sandwiches..... croissants... you name it. So I eat it. It`s OK, I am hungry and it`s food. And then I do as I always do on long (this time 19hrs) bus trips... I reflect, try and meditate, write a little then end up sleeping and watching bad movies. My thoughts this time were interrupted by Ladder 49 dubbed into Spanish. Predictable enough so that, even though we couldn`t get the sub-titles to work, even I, with my limited ...

... Magellanic penguins. The real draw-card for us was the chance of seeing orcas coming in close to shore to snatch baby penguins and seal pups off the beach at high tide. It is an isolated area, so to explore it you need a car or to take a tour. We opted to hire a car for a couple of days. The name of the company where we hired a car from was called Wild Skies. At first I thought this was a pretentious name, but from the first sunset as we drove from Puerto Madryn to ...

Well our stop in Welsh Colony of Trelew (Place of Lewis in Welsh) was mainly as a base for a few wildlife trips. All this area of Argentinian Patagonia is full of penguins, sea lions, sea elephants, killer whales, dolphins (toninas), ñandu ostriches, guanacos, foxes and other sorts. The town of Trelew has little to offer, but has sufficient restaurants and shops to enjoy the evenings after long animal watching tours - even 2 Carrefour supermarkets... Our hotel was well ...

Camped at Punta Piramides for a couple days. It is a neat little town. I think more that half the people in the town are staying in the camp ground. I went out to Punta Norte, saw the sea lions. It is also the place to see the orcas swim up on the beach and eat the sea lion pups. I did not get to see this ...

... the deserts through which the little prince is travelling. And as well there is an island, which has the shape of the drawing of a hat/ snake that swallowed the elephant.... Well even though the weather was **** on Monday, I went on a whale watching tour... and it was well worth going, I tell you! We saw loads of examples of the Right Southern Whale, mostly mothers with their children! Pretty impressive those huge animals and how they move in the water with their massive ...