Ok, I just uploaded a load of new photos. There's a bunch from the last couple of places we stayed - Sierra de la Ventana, Puerto Madryn and Peninsula Valdes. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/gibboniser should do the trick...
So anyway, after my bragging last time about having not seen any clouds for ages, you'll be relieved to hear that the very next day it pissed it down in righteous fashion. The downpour was accompanied by some of the most impressive lighteninig I've ever seen too. Thankfully, we were all packed up and on the bus to our next destination, Puerto Madryn, from where I write now.
Puerto Madryn (which, for some inexplicable reason takes me 4 or 5 attempts to type every time) is a reasonably pretty town some 1400km from Buenos Aires. We've been staying in the ACA campsite around half an hour's walk from the centre. The campsite has been... um... well, the best word for it is noisy. But hell, it's ok - I can't really complain given I'm on a 4-5 month holiday :P
We've managed to do more here than in our last stop at Sierra de la Ventana, due to the fact that the temperature is much more agreeable, being in the mid-20s. Well, I say we've managed to do more... in fact, all that we've done (other than a trip to Peninsula Valdes yesterday) is eat ice cream. If there's one thing that the Argentines know how to do well (other than beef - about which I know nothing what-so-ever) it's ice cream, and we've been eating loads of it. Somehow I've not got any photos yet, but when you see 'em, you'll know what I mean.
So yeah, Peninsula Valdes - our one excursion from the Puerto Madryn. I'm not gonna say too much (mostly 'cos I've been on the computer too long sorting out photos, hence I need a break) but this place was great. If we'd been here a couple of months earlier, we'd have stood a very good chance of seeing southern right whales - they breed in the gulfs to the north and south of the peninsula. But we didn't. Nor did we see orcas, which also inhabit the waters round here. Not quite on the same scale, but we did see penguins, sea lions, elephant seals and rheas, all of which were pretty damn cool. Penguins, in particular, I've wanted to see in the wild since I was a wee lad :D
Oh, no tea nor cake yet, but our next destination surely must deliver on this front - Gaiman, a small welsh settlement in the Chubut valley.
I've also failed to mention the delight I experience daily regarding the quality of the mullets here - they are everywhere!
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