Ron Ceys Heaven

Trip Start Oct 19, 2007
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Sunday, February 3, 2008

Man, I have to wake up at 7:30 to catch an 8:00 bus.  Getting up early blows, it`s like going to work and shit, but instead of designing sweet excel financial analytical spreadsheets (there are a lot of CPA firms at this school and they keep wanting me to join because I`m pretty good with a bow staff, I mean excel) I get to go hang out with penguins.  Before getting to witness the penguin phenomenon though, we take a boat out into the Atlantic to do some dolphin watching.  The dolphins that exist in this part of the world are Commerson Dolphins who`s color pattern looks a lot like a Killer Whale`s.  The weather is perfect this morning being around 20C (68F) and as I am leaning out over the side of the boat a Sea Lion comes up from out of nowhere and shocks the shit out of me.  It`s face was so close I could have punched it.  That Sea Lion is lucky I ain`t black.  Anyone see that video of some black dude walking up onto a porch during the Halloween season where some other dude is pretending to be scarecrow and just chillin on the porch bench and then the he jumps out at the black dude and the black dude gets scared but his initial reaction is to punch the fucker in the face, it`s hilarious, he seriously decks him.  Lesson learned, like the video states, never scare a black person.  I think a white person`s initial reaction would be to run away or bargain with it, fucking honkeys.  Lucky Sea Lion.  Then we finally see some Commerson Dolphins and they are pretty sweet.  They keep jumping out of the water right along side the boat.  It`s almost as if these fuckers have been trained.  Good times and a great day to be on a boat out in the ocean. Baby Penguins - Punta Tombo
Baby Penguins - Punta Tombo

Afterwards we head to Punto Tumbo where an estimated 700,000 penguins reside.  This is the largest penguin colony in the world outside of Antartica.  The place is very surreal with penguins just hanging out everywhere.  Penguins crack me up because they don`t have sweat glands and as today is fairly warm they just stand around with their mouths open panting like dogs.  Everywhere you look you see penguins.  There are certain times where the scenery is just right with 100īs if not 1000īs of penguins paired up standing around motionless on flat earth and it totally reminds me of Alred Hitchcock`s movie "The Birds".  There are so many and you are so close to them that it is quite unbelievable.  If they decided to attack you would be completely fucked.  It would be hilarious if they all lined up in battle formation and came waddling after all the unsuspecting tourists with Ron Cey leading the charge.  In my tour group is 3 germans who are cool but I want to lose them and find a spot off by myself so I can just be surrounded by penguins and no humans.  I find a perfect spot sort of off the main pathway and I find a rock and sit down right next to this penguin.  It was great since my face is more or less in line with his as opposed to me having to look down upon him.  He`s probably 3 feet away and we just sit (well I sit, he stands) there chilling like we are old buddies and I start talking to him (I`m not normal remember).  I say to him "It`s too hot for penguins to just be walking around, I`ve got to send you back to the South Pole.  You know, hanging here with you is even better than Nudy Magazine Day".  I ask him something like "So, you are probably a pretty good swimmer huh?  So you like fish, yeah me too, but not the smelly kind?"  He never responds to me but he does look over in my direction once in awhile so I take that as a sign that we are now homeys.  The good thing about visiting this time of the year is that the baby penguins all hatched sometime in November or December so they are only 2 months old.  They grow rather quickly though and are already 2/3`s to 3/4īs the height of the parents but have much more fur and are even cuter (that sounds gay, but so what, it`s penguins, you are allowed to use the word cute).  Talk about growing up quickly.  They remind me of Brazilian girls and I wonder if they are as slutty.  They will all leave here in a few months and swim 4000km to Brazil and they will be in the water the entire time.  They will then return to here in October (the faster and stronger ones getting the best pads (best pads being under bushes and closer to the ocean) since they will arrive here first) find a mate and do it.  This place is amazing and at times you actually have to be careful not to step on them there are so many. 

I try to get a pic with one while giving him bunny ears but once you sort of get your face next to their`s they start to turn back and snip at you so the pic doesn`t turn out as good as it should have since I had to be on my toes in order to avoid a penguin beak grabbing my nose.  Hey fucker, I`m trying to get a picture here, how bout a little cooperation.  Some of them are pretty accustomed and cool with humans though and they sort of fuck around with you.  This one penguin grabs the german girl`s camera cord and they sort of tug back and forth like you do with a dog.  I just can`t get over how many penguins there are.  There are more penguins here then black and blue marks on Tina Turner`s face (Good work Ike).  We stay here for about 3 hours and then jump back in the van and all in all we will have traveled another 400km today.  I leave for Bariloche early tomorrow and I don`t do much when I get back besides go to the grocery store, eat and hang out with some cats at the hostel for a bit. 

Fin. Baby Penguins getting their sleep on
Baby Penguins getting their sleep on
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