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Published: January 10th 2014
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Laguna Ibera
Ellie's boat had a little trouble with water grass around the propellor Saturday 21
st December (Odyssey Day 43)
Cook group 2 was on again today, so I was up to set out breakfast at 0615. It was a rushed breakfast this morning, as at 0700 we all had a boat tour of Laguna Ibera which lasted for 2 hours. We were split into three boats for the trip and fortunately Triona was in our boat and able to translate some of what our guide was saying as her Spanish is a lot better than the rest of ours. This made it a lot more interesting as we could understand what he was telling us about the area and the animals.
We saw some caiman of various sizes and plenty of different birds. The splashes in the water in some areas were apparently piranha but we could only see the splashes, not the fish themselves. There were also a small group of capybara.
I also saw some beautifully coloured dragonflies, most of which were very difficult to photograph. However I will not likely forget the vivid blues, reds, silvers, and purples of these
Laguna Ibera
Hannah, Joanna & Donna watching a capybara insects.
The chance to see the animals quite close was great and I took rather a lot of pictures. Even if I can’t quite remember what all the birds were called, it was still good to have the chance to see them. We saw various Heron, Egret, Jabiru, Stork, Jacana and Kingfisher. Plus of course a few birds that I can’t remember the names of.
Leaving at 0700, we were able to get back to camp before it got too hot. A few people wandered into the town a few kilometres away however there wasn’t actually really anything there. A group of us stayed at camp in the shade playing cards and sorting through the hundreds of photos that some of us took from the boat this morning…
We made a lazy lunch at 1200 though not everyone could be bothered eating in the heat. It’s really hot and humid here though there is occasionally a cool breeze that blows through the camp.
Showers here are not so much to get clean
as they are to get cool and so I enjoyed having the shower block to myself in the afternoon for a very long cold showers. Unfortunately the heat of the day tends to warm up even the cold water a bit but it’s still much better than nothing.
At 1800 cook group two got together for what is likely to be our last day cooking together. After Christmas, the new groups will be put together. So we made a chicken curry dish. Well chicken curry for everyone else, creamy chicken for me. I don’t think you can call it a curry if there isn’t actually any spices in it…
After dinner we all settled down for a few drinks and watched the sun set over the water. A few of us again pulled out the pack of cards to keep ourselves entertained. Of course the toads were also out and when I accidentally stepped on one, he didn’t even make a sound, just puffed back up and hopped away.
The beer here at the camp bar is only 23
Laguna Ibera
A very big bird on a small tree branch peso for 1 litre, a really good price. The price of beer at the various places we stay is so random that you can never tell if it will be cheaper to buy form the camp bar, or get drinks from the truck bar instead. They do recycle everything around here though, especially the glass bottles.
We headed for bed at a reasonable time tonight – around midnight. I am only sleeping with the sleeping bag liner now – and even then it’s not on fully. It’s much warmer at night and sweltering during the day. Definitely too hot for a sleeping bag, a vast change from southern Argentina.
And of course there was the now familiar cacophony of sounds from the shower blocks again as people remembered the frogs.
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