Puerto Madryn

Whales was what we went to see. Whales is what we saw. It was ridiculous.

If some one said theres a place in the world where ther is literally hundreds of whales splashing around in a harbour like seagulls amongst the yaughts and boats, we wouldnt have beleived them.

BUt this is what puerto madryn is for the months of june to september, we were treated to this amazing display of southern right whales and orcas along with sea lions and the freakist looking sea elephants.

On the first night there we decided to stroll down and get an ice cream in 12 degrees as you do in Argentina (where ice cream is the best in the world), the lady at our hostel said are you going whale spotting, in a joking way, and we thought she WAS joking.. until i spotted some whales immediately, and petra thought i was being stupid, until i made us woalk down to the city wharf, and oooh look 2 metres away where like 3 whales having a bit of adult time right there in the water..

the next day we rented a car with an aussie couple that we met along the way, and it was a great couple of days. we rented a cabin in Puerto Piramides, a tiny town on the Valdes Peninsula, days were spent doing burn outs in the rental VW gol, cooking blues cheese pasta sauce, minus mushrooms, which are impossible to find somtimes, drinking the finest cask wine in the world (NZ$1.50 per litre .75 euro cents) spotting marine life, and me getting all scientific reading what it said in the brochures, and signs.

High light of the trip was forget the whales, magestic sea giants, when we spotted/ almost ran over in the rental an armadillo, which i have been searching for since the far north of argentina!!!! I must say it didnt vanish into the sand in 5 seconds like the signs said. Similar to a seal diving into water?!