With 17 hours of driving between Buenos Aires and our next stop Puerto Madryn, we were glad that Argentine buses lived up to the hype. With huge, totally flat reclining leather seats, food, wine and plenty of movies the journey felt more like a business class flight than your typical National Express trip. When dinner arrived we quickly ate everything in sight only to realise the main course was still to arrive and we were too full to eat most of it. The customary game of bingo started a few hours before arrival and our Spanish numeracy must be pretty good because Helen cleaned-up and won a bottle of wine.
Winter is the start of the Southern Right whale watching season in Puerto Madryn and after getting some tips from the super-friendly hostel owners we took a taxi out to a nearby beach to see if we would be able to spot any off in the distance. To our amazement there were whales everywhere, some only 10 metres or so from the shore! We followed them up and down the beach as they had a whale of a time, rolling and diving in the water. The wind was so cold we had to put the camera batteries inside our gloves to warm them up enough to take pictures but it was well worth braving the weather to see such a spectacle.
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4 comments so far
July 8th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Got nothing to say, just wanted to beat mum to the first comment!!!
Bus looks well comfy though, hope my flight to Jersey on Friday is half as comfortable!!
July 8th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Wow welcome to the blog! Send me pictures of Bob PLEASE! I bet you don’t get a bib on your flight. Have a lovely time though and keep commenting x
July 11th, 2009 at 11:58 am
WELL I’M BACK NOW!!!…………Fantastic whale pictures taken from the beach……….the cruise ship in the distance isn’t getting half as good a view as you two on the beach. Whats that your holding in your hand Nell……looks like a “chocolate submarine”?xx
July 19th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
You´re quite right it is a chocolate submarine, the key ingredient of our favourite submarino drink! Just add hot milk
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