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<\/a>Sunset from our campsite on Peninsula Valdez<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>We saw lots of these little guys running down the roads in front of us. We started calling them roadrunners. meep-meep!<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>Elephant seals were sunning themselves on a beach on the north end of the peninsula.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>Quinn loves the sleeping bag Grammy and Papa bought him before the trip. He’s almost completely grown into it now!<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>The coastline is desert scrub land with beautiful blue waters. It’s not as barren and lifeless as the parts of the Pacific coast that we’ve seen.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>I found some whale bones on the beach during a walk one day.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>We found a great pebble beach near our campsite that was sheltered from the cold wind. The rocks would get warm in the sun and it made a great place to play.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>Another sunset from our campsite.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>One morning we saw a great show including breaching whales.<\/p><\/div>The whales we saw were Southern Right Whales. They come to Peninsula Valdez to give birth, and we saw lots of mother and calf pairs, with the mother demonstrating various behaviors and the calf imitating her. We were basically watching “how to be a whale” school.<\/p>\n
<\/a>After our wild camping, we booked a tour on a whale watching boat and got to see them up close.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>We had to take this silly photo.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>On the lookout<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>Campgrounds around here tend to have showers available in the mornings and evenings only, so when we rolled in stinky after four nights of wild camping, we decided to use our outdoor shower rather than wait till 7pm. This marks the third time we’ve used it on the trip!<\/p><\/div>After leaving Puerto Madryn (the biggest town near Peninsula Valdez) we started on the last southerly leg of our journey. Our first stop was in the towns of Trelew and Germain, settled in the mid-eighteen hundreds by Welsh immigrants. Two years ago there was a major paleontology discovery in the area – the biggest dinosaur yet discovered, the Titanosaurus. There’s a museum in town that has an excellent display of dinosaurs ranging from the size of a chicken all the way up to bones from the locally discovered giant.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The paleontology museum in Trelew was very impressive.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>Trelew and Germain are home to many tea houses that offer high tea in the afternoons. Never having enjoyed that custom in England, we decided to take part in Argentina. Why not?<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>We took a side trip to another national park to see orcas and penguins. We didn’t see any orcas, but the penguins were in abundance.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>Guanacos are related to alpacas and the other camelids that call South America home.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>The area is also home to these giant, strange looking rabbit-like creatures. These two bounded down the road in front of us, veering neither left nor right, for several kilometers. We kind of felt bad for essentially chasing them with the van, but hey, if they’re that dumb…<\/p><\/div>
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