Puerto Madryn

The one standing, gives us his "Seal of approval"...

The fashion down here, leaves a lot to be desired!!!!

(but it keeps you alive)

Having a whale of a time..ha ha

Our flight from El Calafate to Puerto Madryn, was only delayed slightly (about 4 hours), so we were in Puerto Madryn for about 23:00ish. Our hostel is pretty cool and only 2 blocks away from the beach. We went to a resturant for lunch yesterday, and we could see some whales about 200 metres from the beach. Today we took a trip out to see some whales, sea lions and seals. It was very, very, cold, but sunny, and we saw plenty of wildlife. Firstly we saw sea lions and then we went around the cove and saw some seals basking on the rocks. There were around 50 of them and only 3 weeks before there was 500. We then went on a boat to see the whales and that was truly a wonderful site. The whales came as close as 5 metres from our boat, but they were too quick to get a good picture(or at least our camera was too slow). We watched them for around an hour and then headed back in land, before we all froze to death.

All in all a great day and well worth the visit. Tomorrow our friend Delphine is joining us, so we are looking forward to seeing her again and maybe on Friday we will go on a bike ride round the beach to see more whales....who knows we have not been to the pub yet!!!!