The reason I came to Puerto Madryn was to see the marine wildlife, particularly whales. Incidentally, this area was colonised by a group of settles from Wales, trying to keep the welsh language going while it was dying out back home.

Yesterday when I arrived it was a lovely day, mid 20s celsius with a light breeze. In the morning went to the pier to see if any whales were active in the bay, but it appears they have moved further along the gulf before leaving these waters in December for their migration. So, as it was a nice day, I grabbed my towl and swimming shorts and went into the "cold" south atlantic ocean. It was very pleasantly warm actually! And spent the rest of the afternoon sunbathing. Who would believe it possible in Patagonia? Must be global warming.

The reference to russian roulette is nothing to do with whales, so rest easy environmentalists! Raul, a spanish guy who I met again on the bus here, had bought what he thought were the chillies that are only hot in one out of ten. So in theory, one of us might have been unlucky to eat the hot one. Unfortunately, he didn´t know that such a beast doesn´t exist here. Everyone who tried one, including me and a spanish girl we amazingly convinced to eat one (even though she could see we were both suffering), lost that particular game of russian roulette.

Today we took the bus to Puerto Piramide, in the national park of Peninsula Valdes, but the boat trips to see whales weren´t running because of the high winds or some such excuse. So we walked up to Punta Piramides and saw a handful of sea lions doing nothing at all and a few whales from a distance, but not doing any spectacular tail waving. But I´ve seen the whales and now i can move on, perhaps with time to see Magellanic penguins tomorrow before my bus to Rio Gallegos in the very far south of Argentina.

Right. Ready? Here the trip begins!!!

After 4 years thinking about it.. I finally left everything bahind and booked my flights with One World Explorer, an alliance of 10 Airlines (BA, Iberia, Lan, Finnair, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qantas,  Japan Airlines, Malev and Royal Jordanian) to go around the World for a year!!

This ticket  allows you to choose a combination betwenn 1 and 16 flights to get you around the World. It has different but very convienent prices, depending on the amount of continents you choose to visit, and is open for a year. Your initial sector can not be changed (unless you pay a penalty), but after your first flight, you can change any date and time unlimited times free of charge.

So, taken the flight on the 20th October, I flew with BA from London to Buenos Aires on a 16 hour flight, stopping in Sao Paulo just a few hours to refuel.

I did not go to Buenos Aires, as will be doing this at the end of my trip around Argentina but headed, instead, straight to the Atlantic Coast, where I have relatives living there. I think it was a good idea, first of all cause they were very happy to see me as much as I was to see them, and second because I could count on them a lot in matters of free accomodation, food and transport, which is a plus if you are going to be away for such a long time.

To get from Buenos aires to Pinamar I got a taxi from the airport to Retiro, the main terminal where all buses leave to any destination in Argentina and most of Latin America.

Hint:
The best company to go to Pinamar with is called Grupo Plaza, although there are many others. The good thing about them is that they have a website where you can check times and prices and also book online (be aware that most onlines sales web pages in Argentina will only work with Internet Explorer). The journey time is approx. 4.5 hours and the cost is $66 ( around 12 pounds).

Another option is to get the train, but is not that recommendable, as it takes longer and you may go on it like sardines in a tin!!, but it will save you about $25 (4 pounds).

I spent about a week with them, and really loved it. My aunt took me to a lot of nice villages around the Coast. Places I knew only when I was a child, but of which did not have a clear memeory. The best are : Pinamar, Carilo and Villa Gessell. Now, my opinion is: if you have time, visit them, as you will find Kms of beaches and a lot of nightlife going on. If you don't, try just to visit Mar del Plata, the biggest city on the Atlantic Coast ( of Argentina), or just head south from Buenos Aires.

Mar del Plata-Puerto Madryn

Ok, here is where the real trip begins!!

From Mar del Plata there is only one company that will take you all the way down to Puerto Madryn www.donotto.com.ar . The journey is approx 16 hours, and it costs $194 for a semi cama, or $221 for a cama, a kind of first class bed( is worth having a look at the website for pictures), including Dinner, Breakfast, and coffe and tea all night. Don't expect too much!!!

There are many buses leaving from Buenos Aires, it takes about the same time and costs roughly the same. Don Otto again is one of the best, but a very useful website for bus transportation in Argentina is www.plataforma10.com . This website will give you any possible combination and prices, and the possibility to book online. They also have a lot of affiliated agencies around Argentina where you can book your tickets walking in.

31 Oct   Puerto Madryn

Arrived here in the afternoon, and  being a Hostelling International Member, stayed at El gualicho Hostel. A really cool hostel with a very friendly atmosphere, central located, clean and spacious.  Mixed dorms are $40 per night or $38 for HI members, including breakfast ( expect to pay around $190 for a private single ensuite). Toilettes are shared, but very clean. The hostel is open 24 hours so no coiffeur. Breakfast is just tea or coffe, toasted bread and jam or Dulce de Leche ( our national spread made from cow's milk and sugar).

Puerto Madryn is a cosy but not very big town, although definitely good to stop and rest for a day or two, and have a good meal. An eat as much as you like parrilla I can suggest is Puerto Marisco. Loads of meat for just $30 per person not including drinks.
Madryn has got a lot of useful shops if you need to copy your pictures onto CDs or buy camping gears.

Peninsula Valdes and Puerto Piramides Tour ( Whale Watching):

8 am Pick up from the hostel
stop on the way to see the Interpretation Centre with loads of info about sea life
around 9.30 you get to Puerto Piramides and wait to get on a boat that will go for around 1.5 hours around the bay to see the Whales. It is unbelieveble how close they can get to them. They are huge and really beautiful to see and hear.

Return to Puerto Piramides with some time for a lunch break.

In the afternoon visit to the Peninsula where you can see pinguins and sea lions, as well as elephant seals. Occasionally you may get to see some killer whales!!

Many companies will organize this tour, but they all cost the same, so it may just be less hassle to book it at the hostel. The entrance to the Peninsula is not included, and taht is $45 for foreigners, or $14 for Argentinians.

Another option is to get a bus from the bus terminal for $17 return, plus entrance to the Peninsula, to Puerto Piramide, do the Whale Watching tour, hung around until the afternoon and get your bus back. Unfortunately there is only one bus a day leaving Madryn at 9 am and the same coming back at 18.30. The compny who operates this route is called Mar y Valle. 

So we leave Ushuaia on the 2nd and head north, crossing back in to Chile and then out again. We have a few hiccups with the truck but nothing that Andy can't deal with. But we arrive late to our first campsite and then have to get the truck fixed the next morning which means we don't leave till the early afternoon on the 3rd. Making it another late dinner.

We get to Puerto Madryn and get a bot of time in town before heading to the campsite and setting up. A nice relaxing afternoon chilling out in the sun. After a bit of a lie in  it's off in to town for look round town. Chill in a cafe with a few of the guys before heading back to the campsite and heading across to the road to a restaurant for lunch. Then it's back to the campsite for Jana's birthday feed and drinks. A few carry on and sleep in the sand for the night, they get found in the morning and are water bombed. After that we walk along the beach into town and chill out there before heading back and lying on the beach for a bit. Then it's back for Alex's birthday feed and drinks.

I arrived in Puerto Madryn hoping for a National Geographic wet dream moment involving flippers, teeth, blood and blubber. I am of course talking about a killer whale taking a sea lion from the beach, tossing it in the air and then munching it down with the same greedy relish as a fat aunt troughing a plateful of gratis wedding buffet grub.

This majestic natural scene (involving the killer whale, not the fat aunt) is apparently played out with relative regularity on the beaches of Peninsula Valdes at this time of year. I therefore made it to the most likely place on the Peninsula (Punte Norte) at the best time (high tide). However, although I waited around for 2 1/2 hours, I saw precisely zero killer whales.

This is despite the presence of hundreds of adult sea lions lounging about next to the ocean like a big platter of chicken thighs, as well as their cutesy little offspring, splashing around in the shallows like tasty mini sausage rolls with whiskers. Clearly the killer whakes were still attending the stag and hen dos and weren´t yet interested in the formalities of the beach reception feast.

I was disproportionately disappointed with this outcome (try saying that after a few post-nuptial pints). I dunno why, but I´d built it up in my head to be something that would be a diamond highlight of the trip, but it just wasn´t to be. In reality, witnessing the predatory scenes described above is simply down to pot luck and the digestive whims of the whales. TV nature docco crews spend weeks hanging around for it to happen and still get nada. Another time perhaps.

The previous day had been rather more successful as, having hired a car with three Israelis fresh from military service, we drove down about 200 km south of Peninsula Valdes to see the largest colony of Magellanic (medium sizeish) penguins in South America at Punta Tombo. As it turned out, most of the 300,000 birds hinted at by one of the (either fanciful or just lying) tour companies turned out to be on their hols. There were still however, a good 1,000+ on the beaches and dunes around the point whilst we were there.

We were treated to an intimate audience with the dinner-suited little chaps and chapesses. I´m not one for cute stuff generally (I´d rather see something get chomped) but even I couldn´t help but say: "Awwww - don´t they look luverly" in a voice reminiscent of a proud granny flinging confetti on the church steps after a wedding service.

Sheffieldian writer, art critic and all round boffin John Ruskin once said: "One cannot look at a penguin and stay angry" or something remarkably similar. He´s absolutely spot on with that one, and being in such close proximity to the birds without them being in the slightest skittish was a fantastic experience. And one I will not cheapen by adding a random and meaningless wedding-related simile.

´Til next time then.          

Om mine tre dage i Puerto Madryn skal ikke siges saa meget andet end at jeg moedtes med Annelies, fejrede hendes foedselsdag og sladrede som toeser nu goer. Aah jo, vi var ogsaa ude for at kigge efter draeberhvaler, men desvaerre saa vi ingen. Til gengaeld soeelefanter, der dovnede paa stranden, soelover, pingviner og et andet meget underligt dyr, som jeg ikke kan huske hvad hedder. Se billederne :-)

Puerto Madryn - del 19 al 22 des. Bueno doncs ja he arribat a Puerto Madryn, i el viatge no va estar malament, la veritat és que molt més bé que a l'avió (on hi havia algunes coses que no anaven, però tot molt bé remei, i molt rapid i sense turbulencies), els autobusos estan molt bé (de moment). Desde Madryn he fet una excursioneta a la Península Valdés per veure la fuana de la zona, i per anar a saludar les últimes balenes que passaven i la veritat és que és una passada, després de veure tots els meus reportatges preferits de la 2 i del 33, resulta que aquí estic veien foques, lleons marins, balenes, pingüinos, armadillos, una mena de llames, avestruços, llops i no sé que més perquè no me'n recordo dels noms. No, però de veritat que una passada, m'ha fet molta gràcia poder veure això i amb les balenes vem tenir sort i vem poder veure una mare amb una cria, perquè resulta que ara ja comencen a marxar. A la foto no es veu massa bé, però la veritat és que és impresionant veureles d'aprop. El que m'ha quedat per veure és willy l'orca, però bueno qui sap, potser ens trobem més endavant.  I el més divertit va ser l'armadillo, crec que no es podia fer però vem estar jugant amb ell i tocant-lo, em va semblar un bitxo molt simpàtic. Els lleons encara feien alguna cosa, de fet venen a aparellarse,  però els elefants no feien res, (com no s'espabilin no s'aparellen, que la cosa está mu'mal)  era una inactivitat total tirats a al platja i fotent un ronc dels seus de tan en tan, a mi la seva vida em va fer venir una mica d'enveja i aquí també he fet una paradeta de relax i m'he agafat un dia per no fer res i he anat a la platja, això només és per fer enveja als que esteu sota zero, jeje... però bueno aviat me n'hi vaig jo perquè continuo ruta cap al sud per Argentina. De fet ha sigut ara que te'n fas més a la idea que estàs a un lloc bastan diferent, perquè mentres ets a una ciutat no és nota tan.

LEARNING ENGLISH

It would seem that long bus rides would be torture.  But, not for me.  I use this opportunity to learn English...Proper English to be specific.  I have learned on this journey that I not only do not speak Spanish so well, but I also have a limitted English vocabulary.  Steph and the other Euros are very polite to use English when in my presence, but they use this version they call Proper English.

They have been warning me about my things getting nicked if I am not careful.  I might say something like "I don't mind if my things have a few scratches on them."  They giggle.  And then explain to me that "nicked" means stolen; not scratched.

Here are some of the new Proper English words I have learned:                                                     Knackered = Tired      Faffing Around = Doing Nothing Important     Biscuit = Cookie    Smalls = Underwear  Dodgy = Dangerous Area    Minging = Disgusting   Pop Socks = Knee highs   Bollocking = Telling off     Nail = Old Thing   Right = Very   Jelly = Gelatin  Pudding = Desert   Pulled = got the Attention of    Winge = Whining   Pants =  Disappointing    Cack = Rubbish    Cheeky = Mischievious  Trainers = Tennis shoes   Ruck Sack = Back Pack  

BUS FOOD

I never thought it could get worse than airline food.  Our bus food experience has been very interesting.  For breakfast you can get toast in pre-packaged wrapping.  Yum.  Good crunch.  For dinner you will get ham and cheese, of course, but with your choice of bread.  When will I get a choice of meat?  I seriously had 3 ham and cheese sandwhiches on my tray...on white bread, brown bread, and roll. 

Spent another 24 hours on buses today.  It was 13 hours all night from Bariloche to Puerto Madryn with stops in El Bolsen and Trelew.  Then within 15 minutes of arriving we were on the 7:45am-6pm tour bus to the various whale and penquin watching sites.  What were we thinking?!

I am not sure if this occured while on the Don Otto bus to Puerto Madryn or on the sand to watch the penquins and whales, but I have counted 36 flea bits on my left leg, 28 on my right leg, and more than a dozen more on various other parts of my person.  Either that or I have chicken pox.  Just another thing to add to my ailments while travelling.

As soon as we arrived at the bus terminal in Puerto Madryn, we purchased onward tickets to Rio Gallegos for the next day which would get us part of the way to El Calafate.  We were told that there wern't many seats left and we better do it now or risk having to stay in town an extra day.  We spent 164 pesos on that ticket.  After our all day tour, we could not bare the thought of another long bus ride, so we asked to be dropped off at the Aerolineas office.  Yes, the airline known for being late on a regular basis.  But, still quicker than a bus.  We bought tickets from Trelew (1 hour away) to Calafate for 830 pesos.  Yes, that is how much we did not want to take the bus.  The Andesmar bus people were nice enough to only keep 50 pesos of our original ticket price when we turned it in after several attempts to scalp them to backpacker type looking people in the bus station.

WHALE AND PENGUIN HUNTING

We dropped our bags at El Guilicho hostel www.elgualicho.com.ar and then jumped on our little 15 seat van for a long day of chasing nature.  I'd say that this is my first real tour during my 3 months of travel.  And it was pretty pricey.  It is 40 pesos on top of your tour fee to get into the park.  I think that was about 100 or more pesos too.   But, then again, if you divide by 3 it isn't that much.  I keep forgetting that.

Our van took us to several stops around Penninsula Valdez which is famous for having the best whale watching.  About 45 minutes in we stopped to jump on a boat.  Before getting on we were required to get dressed up in yellow rain panchos and orange life jackets.  I was totally clausterphobic in this garb.  It was necessary though as we did get splashed on quite a bit and it was windy and freezing out there.  We spent about 1.5 hours out annoying a mama whale and her baby.  Good advice we got before going was to enjoy watching and forget about trying to take the best photo.  You can always buy a postcard.

The next stop on the van was at a beach where penquins hang out.  I love these animals.  Apparently there is another tour that will take you to a colony where 7000 of them hang out together.  We still saw a few dozen of them and that was good enough for me.

Next stop was a beach where sea lions lounged around.  I knew how they felt.  I had been sleeping on the tour van through the commentary and pit stops to watch various land animals.  Another stop took us to a spot where we were sure to see Orca whales.  Those are the killer ones that are white on the bottom.  None were there though.  Not our lucky day.

Last stop was a museum which we were told had the nicest bathrooms in all of Puerto Madryn and that we must get of photo of.  I did not get the photo, but I can vouch that these are the nicest bathrooms I have seen in all of South America.  There was actually toilet paper, paper towels, and soap there.

We arrived from Bariloche to a very different sort of a town.  Puerto Madryn was the place that settlers from Wales decided to head to from their homeland.
Our first impressions were that it is a very tidy, pretty and clean place and again, it was very different to what you might perceive a Latin American town to be like - our hostel owner´s comment that "Latin America finishes with a line from Cordoba (a city in Northern Argentina) and Europe starts".  I think that we would probably agree with that.

OUr first trip was to Peninsula Valdes to go whale watching.  IT was a fantatic experience, and we saw several Southern Right Whales with young.  They grow up to 16 metres in length, which doesn´t sound a lot, but they are huge animals, especially when you see them close-up!

We then moved-on to the Elephant Seal colonies and the Magellenic Penhuin colonies on the other side of the peninsular.  It was great to see such animals in their natural environment and it was so incredibly peaceful there - very few other tourists around.  Both the penguins and the seals were so awkard looking out of the water, but one they slipped-in to the sea, they loved around so quickly and gracefully.

The next day we visited Punta Tomba to visit the biggest colony of penguins in the Americas.  WE were also fortunate that it was one of 5 days of the year that there are eggs hatching, which was a phenomenal sight.  To be able to stand withing touching distance (although you wouldn´t dare try, because despite their gentle demeanour and their funny waggle, they have razor-sharp bills and are exceptionally protective of their young!) was a great.  
Sadly, we couldn´t go dolphin watching because of the winds and the rough seas, although instead  we went to the Welsh settlement town of Gaiman.  
Gaiman was a funny little place (again, like Puerto Madryn it was very quaint) with a very distinctive look to the buildings.  We visited 2 chapels, the first house constructed in Gaiman and also an original tea-house, where Jeremy unashamedly had a real go at the "all the cake you can eat" policy, although at least we didn´t have to buy any dinner that night!

On our "free day" we hired bikes and set-out on the 34km trip to Punta Lobos to see the Sea Lion colony,
however the weather changed so dramatically that it became dangerous to continue cycling due to the high
winds and so we turned-back (like other cyclists we saw!).  We stopped on a headland on our way (a little disappointed to have cycled over 20km without seeing sea lions, but we were fortunate to see a whale swimming around off the coast, which when it was next to a diving platform gave us a real perspective as to how huge they look.  We sat an watched it for about half an hour as it slowly moved around.

Our next stop from Puerto Madryn is El Calafate (with another 24 hour plus bus journey!), which will be
about as far south (in Argentina) that we will be going.  THe trip onwards to Ushuaia is just a little
way out of reach with the time we have left and the distances we have to coverto see other things!

Today we visited Peninsula Valdes National Park, a short trip in a small group but taking up a whole day. The main attraction is the wildlife, and we were given our money´s worth in what we saw. Two guides, one translating the other one´s Spanish into English, gave us a blow-by-blow description of what we were to see and some of the history of the area. Apparently, Puerto Madryn is one of the richer and more expensive areas to live in Argentina, which wasn´t surprising given some of the houses we had seen along the coastline. However, I still can´t get around the fact that I ate like an absolute king the night before for about 30 potatoes, or a fiver in English money. I´m going to really be begrudged paying four times the price for half the quality when I come back to England. So prepare yourself for moaning, or refusal to pay.

I shouldn´t have badmouthed Skegness. Friday was cloudy and wet all day, so we were restricted to internet cafes and our hostel room. We did try to have a bit of an explore while the rains withheld, but without the sunbathing, there´s not too much to do. We explored the market, and resisted the urge to buy a Rip Carl t-shirt, then had a walk along the pier, before running for cover as the heavens opened.

Saturday was forecast for more rain. This led me to believe I could get away without sun cream on. Big mistake. After about an hour of cloudy but sunny skies and a concealing breeze, I was red-faced, in both senses of the word. Feeling pretty tender, we caught our overnight bus to Puerto Madryn, a fairly small Atlantic coastal city, formed by Welsh settlers in the 1800s. By the time I got here, I wasn´t feeling my best - we hadn´t been able to shower since leaving the beach, I was tired, sunburnt and hot and bothered. Add to this the fact that the hostel-booking site we had used to book accommodation - again - got our reservation wrong, I wasn´t in the best of moods. I chose to amuse myself with the crazy old woman that we had a heated debate with about our room. She kept calling Kyle, ´Kill´before getting corrected, so when she asked me how to pronounce it, I said, ´Colin,´which she bought hook, line and sinker. Much to Kyle´s annoyance. As was the fact that the landlord kept called the penguins, ´pin guins,´which I started to drop into conversation myself, which Kyle couldn´t keep a straight face at. "Tell me again, where can we see pin guins?"

Last night we took a long walk to the Patagonia Ecological Centre - which pretty much does what it says on the tin. We were invited to attend a talk on the pin guins of Patagonia, which I asked, "Is it worth seeing if you don´t speak Spanish. "Yes," I was told, as there was visuals. As soon as we were sat down I made the comment, "We better not get any audience participation here, or my sunburn´s going to get even redder." It happened. We were asked where we all came from. Luckily, I had spouted this schpiel before to others and thought I had got away with it. I could have, but the woman could have called me a stupid sunburnt tourist and I wouldn´t have had a clue. Anyway, the talk was pretty much pointless. In fact, it was pretty much exactly like uni - I was sat in a lecture theatre, not understanding a single word the person was saying and counting down the minutes.

I already have taken a shine to Puerto Madryn. It´s a nice little port with a beautiful view, overlooking the ocean. There´s a less holiday-resort feel to it and our hostel is probably the nicest we´ve stayed in so far. The beaches are much less touristy, much quieter and the sea water is spot on.

Today we hired some bicycles and cycled 17 kilometres to Punta Loma, where there is a sealion rookery outlook. We had been looking forward to the cycle, until we realised the track was mostly sand and gravel, we were battling against a strong wind in the baking sunshine, without shade for the whole journey and every time a car went by we got covered in dust. Nevertheless, the view of the sealions was (probably) worth it (I was knackered). We had lunch on the beach, which we pretty much had to ourselves, and a little paddle for good measure, too. After the cycle home, I was well and truly shattered and was relieved to get in some trademark lying down.

Survived the border crossings again, this time not only tired but also with a hangover! I arrived in Puerto Madryn and booked myself straight on a tour for the following day to see the Southern Right Back Whales. There are hundreds in the waters around here until mid December and I wasn´t sure if we were going to see any but tours were still going and it was pot luck as to whether or not you saw the last remaining ones.

It was a long bus journey to the Peninsula from here but we stopped off at various places along the way to have a break from the ripio, the gravel road! In the museum we saw the bones of a 2 year old Whale, it was 11 metres long! Our first stop was a beach with Elephant seals and sealions, which are just starting to arrive in the area to breed, over the next few months more will arrive and the huge beach will be covered. They were really interesting to watch, particularly the males who were very protective over the females. We also saw an Armadillo on the way back to the bus, funny little creature. We drove around the peninsula and saw more seals and then some penguins, which we were able to get close up to. Some of them have just had chicks and I managed to spot one fluffly little grey thing, it was so cute. I love penguins they are so comical to watch. I could have taken a tour the following day to an even bigger Penguin colony but you have to travel a long way to get there, so I decided not to do it. In the afternoon, we took a boat out to find the Whales, groups that had been out in the morning had seen a mother and baby so we were in with a chance. I have never been on such a rough boat ride but I loved it and wasn´t at all sea sick, the boat was bouncing right out of the water and then crashing down with the waves coming on board. We seemed to spend a long time getting out and were beginning to think that we weren´t going to see them and then the baby whale was along side us, incredible. It didn´t look like a baby though it was massive. I have a good picture of its head coming out of the water but I don´t have the classic tail shot. It was really difficult to take pictures because of the swell and plus I wanted to enjoy the short time we had actually watching the whale rather than trying to take impossible pictures. After what seemed like a very short time, we returned but the wind was against us, so the journey back still bouncing in and ou tof the water seemed to take twice as long, but we all agreed that it was worth it.

Yesterday, I managed to get a ticket to my final destination, Buenos Aires. I thought it would be a bit of a lottery because people in the hostel had told me that they hadn´t been able to get tickets to the their chosen destinations but I had no problem. I leave tonight to spend the rest of my time left there. So this afternoon I have to try and organise soemwhere to stay. I´m not sure who I will be spending Christmas with but met an Aussie guy who will be there for New Year.

I have one final mission before I leave and that is to take the bus (20 hours each way) to Iguazu Falls and then I am never taking a bus again for the rest of my life!

Well have a great Christmas, if I don´t get chance to email again from BA, I´ll see you all in the New Year!

After an 18-hour overnight bus journey from Buenos, we arrived in the seaside town of Puerto Madryn. We found out about a campsite 5km out of town and hopped on the local bus to the nearest stop. When I say hopped on the bus I mean struggled under the weight and size of our packs up the steps of the bus barely managing to squish through the door.  

The campsite was great and at last we could set up tent after lugging the bloody thing for nearly a month. It was warm too with lovely sunny weather, horah!! Unfortunately, having just got off an overnight bus I was feeling rather tired and unable to concentrate so my crap spanish suffered. At the campsite, instead of asking the campsite owner if they were open I asked if they were bored. whoops.

A nice stroll into town around the bay, a little touristy in town though. Booked our whale/penguin excursion for the Monday!!