Our stay at the hotel Faro de Punta Delgada was ultimately fantastic and I would recommend it to anybody. The accommodation is basic, but warm and clean and the food and service is brilliant. Its the kind of place you go to, to reconnect with nature and rest and I will certainly go back. We left the hotel at 07h30 to go north to Caleta Valdez in the hope of seeing some Orcas during the high tide but alas, all we saw was a bunch of seals lazing about on the beach.
The tactic that the local orcas have learnt is quite unlike anything else seen in the world in that they do the counter instinctive thing and purposefully beach themselves to catch seals and sea lions when they are at their most vulnerable on land. They then wriggle back into the water to savour their prey. The following photo is a pic I found on Google and is not one of mine but it gives you an idea of what these smart guys have learnt to do.
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You can almost feel that poor seal crapping itself at what is about to happen!!
The Beautiful Peninsula Valdez which is certainly worth a visit.
The 120km dirt ride back to Punta Piramide where we had to fuel became quite treacherous with long stretches of very soft sand. To add to the problem, there was a heavy wind blowing from the west that kept pushing me onto the verge and one big gust actually was enough to get me into the really soft stuff and caused a spectacular “evil Knievel” worthy moment. To add to the drama, my GoPro helmet cam for some reason went off just at that moment so I am even able to share it for a laugh! No bodily or mechanical harm though because the fall was into a big bank of talcum powder type sand!!
Oh man what a laugh!!! Yes! That’s my foot coming over my head!!
…and this is me trying to regain some dignity after!!
The rest of the ride to Trelew was uneventful and the reason we decided on a short run today is because the auxiliary tank tube on the KTM split at the head and was leaking a little fuel so we needed to attend to the repair which we did this afternoon.
Our short 280km ride today.
We have covered about 2000km since leaving BA on Wednesday and tomorrow we head for Comodoro Rivadavia about 400km from here.
Sweet Rolls
January 22, 2013 at 10:15 am
what did i say :)) … yes, she fell over, again, and you fell on top of her 🙂