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Puerto Madryn & Marie's Favourite.....The Penguins
... area where we seen more penguins, and we got a good view of them in the water. Further along we seen sea lions but they are pretty lazy and weren't really doing much. We drove further to Punta Norte which is the best point to see killer whales. After 5mins of staring at the sea we couldn't believe it when we seen some splashing in the water - we looked through the binoculars and it was killer whales! There ...
Derek in the land of the Whale Fish.......
... to give birth. The female seals then have about 19 days to relax before they are pregnant again. They seem to get a bit of a rough deal with ugly mates and always being pregnant.
The weather started to get better halfway through the week which meant calmer waters and more chances of getting up close and personal with the whales, so we seized the opportunity and took a ...
We're almost halfway to Ushuaia
... under the container door. Why we had to do that when in Cape Town I just drove it in without lowering the car’s height in this fashion is still a mystery. Something to do with the local weather maybe?
So after stopping outside the docks to put the higher roof rack boxes back in place and taking on some local diesel (a requirement of shipping in a container even as "Hazardous Cargo" is that the fuel tank may not be more than ¼ full) Jambo was driven back to ...
Week 6 Troublesome Argies
... of whales depending on the time of year. The organised excursions didn’t do much for us so we decided to walk the 2-3 miles along the seafront to the point of the bay to visit the monumento al Indio, the statue commemorates the Tehuelche Indians who helped the first 153 Welsh settlers to survive in 1865. Just on the shoreline you can see the caves they hacked out of the rock where they lived for a couple of years in order ...
Sea Lions with pups
... South America.
Our tour was wonderful though. Our guide, 22-year-old Viviana, was conducting only her second tour. But she did a really great job. Her English was excellent and she knew lots and delivered the information with élan. She was particularly curious about our cruise ship and experiences and loved my camera.
We went to Punto Loma and stood on a promontory above the sea ...