Lunch in Puerto Piramides

As the midday sun took a hold, we interrupted our wildlife safari for lunch on this lovely beach - more fresh fish and ice cold cerveza - YUM!

Valdes Peninsula

This is our bus to Puerto Piramides, a wonderfully remote place to stay in the middle of wild, natural beauty. It's a nature reserve and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999.

Armadillo

This little fellow was really tame, snuffling around our ankles for food and seemingly enjoying having his hairy back stroked.

Sea Lions

This is the site of the sealion colony - thousands of them can be seen from the high cliffs in such large numbers that they seem to stretch out like a velvety bronze tide line on the beautiful sandy beaches below. They breed here in Sept and Oct and killer whales can be seen here feeding on the pups and penguins.

Penguin Colony

The Valdes Peninsula has a wonderful array of marine life, birds and a profusion of Patagonian wildlife of which this penguin colony is a major attraction. They come here to breed and then swim north to Brazil, one of the few penguin colonies that don't return to the Antarctic.