Having a whale of a time!

Ok. I'm sorry. I'll apologise straight away for the whale joke. But you can just count yourself lucky that you didn't have to actually endure the day trip to the Peninsula Valdes with me to see the whales. I mean the opportunities were endless; the city, Puerto Madryn, where we were staying, was founded by settlers from Wales; our guide was playing Bob Marley and the Wailers! You can hardly blame me!

We toured the Penisula for the whole day, walking through huge herds of elephant seals, watching sea lions sunbathing, trying to stop laughing after seeing the penguin colony and, the definate highlight for me, going out in a boat to see the whales.







It was incredible to see the whales up so close. So graceful, and yet kind of awkward and ugly. One pair, a mother and her white baby (apparently 1 in every 100 born are white) swam right up to boat, and had a good look at us! Amazing.