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Published: February 12th 2011
What does one day in Calafate hold? Well, dinosaurs, flamigoes, delicious coffee and a car rally - with Herbie in it!! And a sprite too, just for you Harriet and Terry - and yes I took photos as it is not like yours!
But, dinosaurs first - down near the coastline there is a tin shed calling itself a museum which has a wonderful display of the dinosaurs found in this area and the change in this part of the earth over the last 60 millions of years - it was really good! Then onto a small reserve for flamingoes which was lovely. The planting would be good for your pond Dave - and I took photos for you too! The flamingoes were superb, lots of them and very pink. I also saw several birds of prey which was exciting - nothing like a little murder and mayhem in the bird world, but they were on their best behaviour so no such fun!
Dawdling through a souvenir area, I found the candidate for the worst taste souvenir to date - will post it when I am home, it is really bad! I heard lots of revving engines and assumed it was motorbikes, but no, thre were many beautiful cars circling the town before going off to do a rally in both Chile and Argentina. Herbie was wonderful, but there was also a 2CV which meant divided loyalties, a sprite and several other cars I recognised. All great fun ad forced me into a coffee shop to blog about it... the cake I cannot blame on the day LOL!
Tomorrow is a visit to another glacier then El Chaten. At that stage we will be out of wifi range so no ore posts for a while!
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Dave
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Did the earth move for you today / yesterday, I heard there was an earthquake !!!!!!