Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Peninsula Valdez, Argentina

We visited this exact beach on the Valdez Peninsula in Northern Patagonia, Argentina in December of 2007. We flew south from Buenos Aires (about 2 hours) to the small airport at Trelew, and drove to Puerto Madryn where we stayed the night. The next day we drove for hundreds of Kilometers on dirt roads to reach these secluded beaches on the Valdez Peninsula. We saw extraordinary colonies of Sea Lions and Elephant seals and Magellanic Penguins. Unfortunately, we were a little late in the season for the annual Orca attacks. I so wish we had been there at the right time for that, this is what it looks like:

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