The Americas 2013

Although people raved about Las Grutas, it was quite a basic seaside tourist town, albeit it with a great location. Our hotel for the night was the crown Casino Hotel because its the only accommodation we could find so we were quite keen to head out early because we are/were planning on spending two nights at the Peninsula Valdez… (the place where the Orcas have learnt to beach in order to nab the seals!).

Our ride for the day

The ride from Las Grutas was more open, hot, flatland although there are signs beginning to appear that the topography is about to become more interesting as we head further south. The ride into the Peninsula itself however was visually interesting with beautiful dramatic bays all over the place.

We are spending the night at the hotel Faro Punta Delgada which translates as the “lighthouse at Punta Delgada” which is really basic and quite expensive for what it is although the food and service here is fantastic!!!

The last 70km towards the hotel was a sandy pebbly dirt road which was “fun” at times but passed quite quickly as we were able to maintain a decent speed. We got to the hotel, had some lunch and I promptly collapsed into the deepest sleep that I have had in forever…which was great!

The old bullet becoming quite the pro at riding l’il Fatty on the dirt!!

The peninsula Valdez is famous for its whales, Southern Right and Orcas and its leopard and Elephant seals. Its famous because of the numbers around here so at 6:30pm we went down to the beach to see the elephant seals which was great and in the morning, Enrico and I are going to ride about 50km north to hopefully see some Orcas beaching to eat seals.

Tomorrows Orca kippers?

Although we were planning two nights here, we have decided that there is not enough to do and see so after riding north in the morning we are going to press on to Trelew, a town about 280km south.