Pt. San Antonio Este
On Monday, October 17th on the way towards Pt. San Antonio Este I
stopped in front of Tourist Office of Carmen de Patagones to publish
the pages of my website, to consult my mailbox and to do a fast
press review. Road RN #3 towards the south is really boring long
straight lines with fields enclosed as far as the eye can see. After
having made the tour of the village, to circulate there is nothing
to see. On the return I found a nice bivouac in seaside.
Puerto Lobos
On Tuesday, October 18th on the way towards Pt. Lobos I made a
detour to San Antonio Oeste to go to the local supermercado. I fell
on a road battered and muddy, a true cesspool; all that to buy four
apples and a liter of milk! Back on the RN #3 I made another detour
to join the sea at Pt. Lobos, certainly the landscape is sublime and
some sun rays brightened the beach and the sea.
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ruta RP#60 to Pt. Lobos |
Península Valdés, Puerto Pirámides
On Wednesday morning the October 19th after 60 km on the RP-#1 in
mud I arrived at the junction with the RN-#3 to Puerto Piramidés. As
of my arrival I sought an agency to go for hunting whale by boat. I
bought a ticket for a tourt from 18:00 to 20:00 with the sunset.
Then I found the bivouac known on the beach where I found my Swiss
friends Renate & Bruno with their MAN. Hunting whale is rather
disappointing because I saw especially the back of whales, actually
a mother and her small. It is the ballena franca austal, southern
right whale. At the fallen night I returned to my truck. The morning
by visiting Centro de Visitantes I took two pictures of Tattoo,
Peludo, Larger Hair Armadillo for my American friends, Olivia &
Fred. Alas I did not meet this small animal at the time of my visit
of the peninsula.
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| RP #1 from Pt. Lobos to junction RN #3, 60 km |
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| Puerto Piramides |
Chasse à la baleine, click the picture
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| For Olivia & Fred, my American friends |
On Thursday, October 20th I undertook a tour of Penisula Valdés in
search of local fauna. The booklet praises “Las bahίas más bellas
del mundo”! No whale, but sea lions, elephant seals and of course
penguins. The sea elephants are softened on the beach like goatskin
bottles full of water and the four penguins out of Master of hotel
dress expect the visitors. The tour represents a distance of 230
km that I traversed in 8 hours, I was back to the bivouac shortly
after 16:30. Altogether the day was also disappointing by a rather
sparse fauna. On east-coast the most abundant population is the
sheep, as in Wales.
Reserva Faunistica Peninsula Valdés, click the
picture
Playa El Doradillo, RP-#42
On Friday, October 21th I moved towards Puerto Madryn by the RP-#42
while stopping at Playa El Doradillo to have rest during three days.
