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November 18th 2007

Published: November 25th 2007

We spent three days in Puerto Madryn, a seaside town near Peninsula Valdes, Argentina's best marine wildlife viewing area. And we had an absolute blast! We stayed at a little homestay kind of place, with a little old lady running it who was absolutely lovely. It was great until the second day when Hazel broke a lamp in our room, and we spent the next 36 hours chewing our nails and wondering how t... Read Full Entry

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Sidhanth Kamath

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So I finally graduated from LSE, and was then offered a job by this company...which doesnt start till next year. I decided to kill time, and realised travelling was my only option since London is bloody expensive. I'm leaving London on Aug 9th and aim to set foot in 5 continents along the way. I will be spending most of my time in South America learning Spanish and hopefully doing some diving, and will finally reach Bangalore, India (home) in December. At the time of leaving, I am exactly 6-foot tall, weigh 75kgs (11.8 stone), am clean shaven and have short hair. Hopefully when I reach Ban... full info

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Aaarghhh!

This is one of the three whales that got pissed off with the boat following them around, so came straight for us, and dived under last second. I couldnt get into position and take a good shot, was just clicking randomly, but you can see how close it was.

Crazy whales

Diving diving....

Dived!

Manual windscreen wiper

On the way back

Orca

you can see the tip of his fin on the left hand side near the shore. He was hanging around waiting for the sealions to get back in the water to eat them but didnt succeed while we were there. Sorry for the crap pic, but my current lense is very small so.

Rainbow sunset

You could see every colour of the rainbow in the sky.

And the sun of course

Pinguinos!

Only problem is I was shivering so much that I coudlnt hold them camera still enough to get a good shot, since it was dark. And I didnt want to turn on the flash, since the little guys were only 3 feet away and probably wouldnt have liked it.

Mr Penguin

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