Sad to leave Buenos Aires we headed south to Porto Madryn in the Patagonian region of Argentina, (the big pointy bit at the bottom). We booked ourselves on a two day excursion, on Day One we travelled to the peninsular and got a boat ride out into the bay to see the Whales (they were soon off to migrate south). We were lucky and got to see at least 7 whales. They were enormous, coming right along side and under the boat, we had our fingers crossed they had a good judge of distance and weren't going to come up under us and capsize our boat. Incredible animals but very ugly! Next stop elephant seal...also very ugly, nay, uglier, but was quite the scene seeing them beached along the sea front looking just as active as
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