Photo Upload: Patagonian Sealife

Continuing South on the coast of Patagonia we encountered some marvellous animals.

I recon the cormorants (birds) told a funny joke.

These are nesting holes for Megellanic Penguins. 500,000 nest at Punta Tumbo.

Going for a swim, they come out of the water much cleaner.

Waiting for an unguarded egg.

Guarding her egg (the males guard too, but they look slightly different).

Cavies! cute eh. They live around the Penguins, they are about fist sized.

Photo Upload: Whale Watching on Peninsula Valdes (and Orcas!)

Many people have been anticipating my Peninsula Valdes photos, here they are.

First Whales H and I saw there were this Albino calf and its mum.

Me, watching the Mum and calf swim away after having been about 15metres from us.

There were 2 dead whales on the beach. They stunk but the seagulls loved it.

This whale wasn't as long decayed. According to the dog the tongues the best bit. (another dog brought some to us as we sat on our chairs. H was ungrateful and kicked the smelly rotting meat away.)

See the whale and the people watching... the water is immediately deep so the whales can come in close.

Jump! If you get one jumping or tail flipping they usually did it again and again.

Even when there weren't whales it was spectacular, especially at sunrise.

Beach camped.

Orcas! (or, in English, Killer Whales)... I wasn't sure if they were but even the people at the Puerto Madryn Eco centre say they are, and everybody else does too. So that settles it? I was the only person on the beach when I saw them and snapped this picture. 

Photo Upload: A week in Chile

H and I had a week in Chile (we're going back though). Here's a little of what we saw.

In Argentine Patagonia the houses are often with walls of tin / corregated iron. In the lakes district of Chile we saw wooden houses more often.

Transporting timber.

Camping lakeside and waiting for the ferry to take us back to Argenina in the morning.

Photo Upload: Early Argentina

I have computer access! So here's some more photos from my first weeks overlanding in Argentina.

Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Andes. I just had a look rather than walking up.

Andean Condor in flight.

Argentine farmhouse.

From Europe to the Southern tip of South America: H's journey.

One of the most asked questions so far is how did we get to where we are (the location of which changes almost daily). So I will give you a brief summary. 

I joined H in Mendoza, Argentina, just 2 months ago. But his journey started from Belgium 3 years ago. 

He drove from Belgium to Denmark and ferried the vehicle from Denmark to Iceland, then shipped by container ship from Iceland to Newfoundland, Canada. Then he spent 2 years driving down and up and across in North and Central America. All of this was done with a girlfriend (now ex), who after 2 years decided they should go home. But H didn't go home, he shipped from Los Angeles to Colombia and continued travelling south, alone. 

At some point he got lonesome enough to put a notice on the Lonely Planet (ie guide books) travels forum to which I responded. He had other responses too, but I was the only one who wanted to keep on travelling long term. And so, here we are... travelling.