Friday, July 14, 2006

Wet 'n Wild

To the other side of the continent; an overnight bus ride took me to Puerto Madryn on the Atlantic coast. The town has recently undergone a huge tourism boom due to the relatively unspoilt Valdes peninsula, which is something of a haven for elephant seals, sea lions, guanacas (basically faster deer-like llamas who like to trample people as well as spit on them) and plenty more. Importantly, it's also a major stop over for migrating southern right whales and orcas; the bay was full of southern rights who put on quite a show. The shots I got of them breaching are even blurrier than above, as the conditions were very dark, wet and windy (not to mention freezing cold), so this is all you get.

As a footnote, any doubters of the theory of evolution please compare the below with my dog. This is clearly what her ancestors looked like before they evolved legs and gained all that weight.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Now I need to see your dog then...